[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2008 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2008

  To prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental 
                              activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2002

   Mr. Gregg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental 
                              activities.

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

SECTION 1. ABORTION NON-DISCRIMINATION.

    Section 245 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238n) is 
amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``regarding 
        training and licensing of physicians'' and inserting 
        ``regarding training, licensing, and practice of physicians and 
        other health care entities'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``to perform such 
        abortions'' and inserting ``to perform, provide coverage of, or 
        pay for induced abortions'';
            (3) in subsection (c)(2)--
                    (A) by inserting ``or other health professional,'' 
                after ``an individual physician'';
                    (B) by striking ``and a participant'' and inserting 
                ``a participant''; and
                    (C) by inserting before the period the following: 
                ``, a hospital, a provider sponsored organization, a 
                health maintenance organization, a health insurance 
                plan, or any other kind of health care facility, 
                organization or plan''; and
            (4) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``standards'' and 
        inserting ``standard''.
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