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108TH CONGRESS f REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 108-288
PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 2003
SEPTEMBER 30, 2003.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SENSENBRENNER, from the committee of conference,
submitted the following
CONFERENCE REPORT
[To accompany S. 3]
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses on the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 3), to
prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion,
having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to rec-
ommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:
That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amend-
ment of the House and agree to the same with an amendment as
follows:
In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House
amendment, insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
of 2003.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds and declares the following:
(1) A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the
practice of performing a partial-birth abortion-an abortion in
which a physician deliberately and intentionally vaginally de-
livers a living, unborn child's body until either the entire baby's
head is outside the body of the mother, or any part of the baby's
trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother and only
the head remains inside the womb, for the purpose of per-
forming an overt act (usually the puncturing of the back of the
child's skull and removing the baby's brains) that the person
knows will kill the partially delivered infant, performs this act,
and then completes delivery of the dead infant-is a gruesome
and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and
should be prohibited.
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