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                         JULY 8, 2016  
 
              RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 114-61  
              
         TEXT OF S. 304, MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY  
         
                    WHISTLEBLOWER ACT  
                    
      [Showing the text of the Conscience Protection Act of 2016.]  
      
      
1  SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.  

2       This Act may be cited as the "Conscience Protection  

3  Act of 2016".  

4  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.  

5       Congress finds as follows:  

6            (1) Thomas Jefferson stated a conviction com- 

7       mon to our Nation's founders when he declared in  

8       1809 that " [n] o provision in our Constitution ought  

9       to be dearer to man than that which protects the  

10      rights of conscience against the enterprises of the  

11      civil authority".  

12           (2) In 1973, the Supreme Court concluded that  

13      the government must leave the abortion decision "to  

14      the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's at- 
 
15      tending physician", recognizing that a physician may  

16      choose not to participate in abortion. Roe v. Wade,  

17      410 U.S. 113, 164 (1973). The Court cited with ap- 

18      proval a policy that "neither physician, hospital, nor  



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