Review of the 110th Congress:

Rights of Conscience and Miscellaneous Life-Related Bills

 

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Rights of Conscience 

 

S 350— Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2007, sponsored by Senator David Vitter (R-LA). A bill that prohibits certain abortion-related discrimination in government activities. It amends the Public Health Service Act to ensure that the federal or any state government will not discriminate against a health care entity's refusal to provide coverage of induced abortions.  

 

Miscellaneous

 

HR 2097—Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007, sponsored by Representative Steven Rothman (D-NJ). A bill that authorizes grants to carry out projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancy.

 

HR 2114—Repairing Young Women's Lives Around the World Act, sponsored by Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). A bill to provide a United States voluntary contribution to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for prevention and repair of obstetric fistula. This bill contradicts the former practice of denying funds to UNFPA because of its abortion funding stance. 

 

HR 2604—United Nations Population Fund Women’s Health and Dignity Act, sponsored by Representative Joseph Crowley (D-NY). A bill to provide financial and other support to the United Nations Population Fund to carry out activities to save women's lives, limit the incidence of abortion and maternal mortality associated with unsafe abortion, promote universal access to safe and reliable family planning, and assist women, children, and men in developing countries to live better lives.  

 

HJ Res 40, sponsored by Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). Proposes an amendment to the US Constitution relative to equal rights for men and women. The bill prohibits denying or abridging equality of rights under the law by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

  

H. Res. 757, sponsored by Representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ). Equal Rights Amendment issue: A resolution requiring the House of Representatives to take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution when the legislatures of an additional three States ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

 

SJ Res 10, sponsored by Senator E. Kennedy (D-MA). Long known as the "Equal Rights Amendment, but now referred to by some supporters as the "Women's Equality Amendment," this joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that would add to the Constitution the words, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

 

S. 1137—Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007, sponsored by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ). A bill that authorizes grants to carry out projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancy.