No Taxpayer Funding for Health Centers Providing Abortion Act

Subjects: Health

Summary:  <p><b>No Taxpayer Funding for Health Centers Providing Abortion Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits grants that are awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration through the Health Center Program from being used to provide an abortion unless the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother. (The Health Center Program supports the operations and activities of health centers that primarily provide preventative and primary care to low-income individuals and other medically underserved populations.)</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 750 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 750

To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit health 
       centers from providing abortions, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 9, 2023

Mr. Braun (for himself, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
               on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit health 
       centers from providing abortions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Taxpayer Funding for Health 
Centers Providing Abortion Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ABORTIONS.

    Section 330(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
254b(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``Limitation'' 
        and inserting ``Limitations'';
            (2) by striking ``The requirement'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) In general.--The requirement''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Limitation on abortions.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Funds made available to 
                        health centers under this section may not be 
                        used for abortions except where necessary to 
                        save the life of the mother. No health center 
                        or related treatment facility, that receives 
                        funds under this section, may provide or be 
                        used to provide an abortion except where 
                        necessary to save the life of the mother.
                            ``(ii) Definition.--In this subparagraph, 
                        the term `abortion' means the use or 
                        prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, 
                        or any other substance or device--
                                    ``(I) to intentionally kill the 
                                unborn child of a woman known to be 
                                pregnant; or
                                    ``(II) to intentionally terminate 
                                the pregnancy of a woman known to be 
                                pregnant, with an intention other 
                                than--
                                            ``(aa) after viability to 
                                        produce a live birth and 
                                        preserve the life and health of 
                                        the child born alive; or
                                            ``(bb) to remove a dead 
                                        unborn child.''.
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