[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 136 (Monday, September 21, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S6851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2667. Mr. CASEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 36, to amend title 18, United States Code, to 
protect pain-capable unborn children, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE PREGNANCY ASSISTANCE 
                   FUND.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) In 2011, 730,322 legal induced abortions were reported 
     to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
       (2) Forty-nine percent of all pregnancies in America are 
     unintended. Excluding miscarriages, 42 percent of unintended 
     pregnancies end in abortion.
       (3) Of those unintended pregnancies ending in abortion, 50 
     percent of the women have incomes below 200 percent of the 
     poverty level.
       (4) The pregnancy assistance fund is an initiative to 
     support women facing unplanned pregnancies, new parents and 
     their children by providing for health care needs, supportive 
     services and helpful prenatal information and postnatal 
     services.
       (b) Additional Funding.--Section 10214 of Public Law 111-
     148 (42 U.S.C. 18204) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following: ``In addition to amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated in the previous sentence, there are authorized 
     to be appropriated, and there are appropriated from funds not 
     otherwise obligated, to carry out section 10210, an 
     additional $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 
     2019, and an additional $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
     2020 through 2024.''.
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