[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1545 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1545

  To prohibit Federal officials from paying any Federal funds to any 
      individual or entity that performs partial-birth abortions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2003

   Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit Federal officials from paying any Federal funds to any 
      individual or entity that performs partial-birth abortions.

    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 ``Partial-Birth Abortion Funding Ban 
Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST PAYMENT OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO INDIVIDUALS OR 
              ENTITIES THAT PERFORM PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS.

    (a) Prohibition.--Consistent with the just compensation clause of 
the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, no Federal official may pay 
any Federal funds to any individual or entity that performs partial-
birth abortions.
    (b) Definition.--The term ``partial-birth abortion'' means an 
abortion in which--
            (1) the person performing the abortion deliberately and 
        intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the 
        case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is 
        outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech 
        presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is 
        outside the body of the mother for the purpose of performing an 
        overt act that the person knows will kill the partially 
        delivered living fetus; and
            (2) performs the overt act, other than completion of 
        delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus.
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