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                            JUNE 14, 2013 
 
                     RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 113-15 
 

                 H.R. 1797, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PAIN-
                 CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT 

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          Committee on the Judiciary, with a modification.] 


1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
2     This Act may be cited as the "Pain-Capable Unborn 
3 Child Protection Act". 
4 SEC. 2. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF 
5             CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY FOR ENACT- 
6             MENT. 
7     Congress finds and declares the following: 
8         (1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present 
9     throughout the unborn child's entire body and 
10    nerves link these receptors to the brain's thalamus 
11    and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks after 
12    fertilization. 
13        (2) By 8 weeks after fertilization, the unborn 
14    child reacts to touch. Ater 20 weeks, the unborn 
15    child reacts to stimuli that would be recognized as 
16    painful if applied to an adult human, for example, 
17    by recoiling. 


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