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The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is a bill that was introduced to the 112th Congress of the United States in the House of Representatives by Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) and Dan Lipinski (D-Illinois). The bill's stated purpose is "[t]o prohibit taxpayer funded abortions and to provide for conscience protections, and for other purposes."
2018 – On 4 May, governor Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that would ban abortion in Iowa after a fetal heartbeat is detected, starting 1 July 2018. [214] On 22 January 2019, a county district judge declared the law to be in violation of Iowa's State Constitution and entered a permanent injunction prohibiting its enforcement. [215]
Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 113th Congress: Women's Health Protection Act of 2013 H.R. 3471: November 11, 2013 Judy Chu (D-CA) 132 Died in committee. S. 1696: November 11, 2013 Richard Blumenthal(D-CT) 35 Died in committee. 114th Congress: Women's Health Protection Act of 2015 H.R. 448: January 21 ...
The House of Representatives passed a package of spending bills this week without provisions banning federal funding for most abortions in the U.S. and abroad, marking the first time in decades ...
As of 1994, federal law mandates all states to pay for abortion cases involving rape or incest. [15] On January 24, 2017, the House voted to make the Hyde Amendment (H.R. 7) permanent. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) stated, "We are a pro-life Congress", and he re-affirmed the government's commitment to restricting tax money to funding abortions. [17]
A federal appeals court has paused enforcement of a federal government regulation that allows abortion providers to receive federal family planning money — but only in Ohio, where state health ...
The report suggests that reinstating a federal right to abortion is the way to keep these problems from escalating, and it calls on Congress to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill ...
Pub. L. 115–123 (text) 115-124: February 9, 2018 Continuing Appropriations Amendments Act, 2018: Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 115–124 (text) 115-125: February 14, 2018 Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act