[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4888 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4888

                     To protect innocent children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2000

 Ms. Ros-Lehtinen introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
  the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
                     To protect innocent children.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Innocent Child Protection Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF INNOCENT CHILDREN.

    It shall be unlawful for any authority, military or civil, of the 
United States, a State, or any district, possession, commonwealth or 
other territory under the authority of the United States to carry out a 
sentence of death on a woman while she carries a child in utero. In 
this section, the term ``child in utero'' means a member of the species 
homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.
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