Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

This bill seeks to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain, specifying that such capability arises around 20 weeks after fertilization. It outlines provisions for conducting abortions on pain-capable unborn children, including requirements for physicians to assess the age of the unborn child, limitations on when abortions can be performed, exceptions for cases of danger to the mother's life or certain circumstances of conception, and penalties for violations.

The bill also includes provisions for reporting data on such abortions, definitions of key terms like 'abortion', 'physician', and 'unborn child', and outlines civil and criminal penalties for non-compliance with the act.

Rep. Chip Roy

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