I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3471 
To protect a woman’s right to determine whether and when to bear a child 
or end a pregnancy by limiting restrictions on the provision of abortion 
services. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 13, 2013 
Ms. CHU (for herself, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Ms. BROWNLEY 
of California, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Ms. BASS, Mrs. 
BEATTY, Mr. BERA of California, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. BROWN of 
Florida, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. CLAY, Mr. DANNY K. 
DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. 
FARR, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GUTIE´RREZ, Ms. HAHN, Mr. HOLT, Ms. JACK-
SON LEE, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of 
Georgia, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. MCCOL-
LUM, Ms. MOORE, Mr. MORAN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. LINDA 
T. SA´NCHEZ of California, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Ms. 
SPEIER, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. WELCH, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. 
MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. BRALEY 
of Iowa, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. 
LOEBSACK, Ms. ESTY, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. MENG, Mr. 
POCAN, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. WATERS, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Ms. 
EDWARDS, and Mr. KEATING) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To protect a woman’s right to determine whether and when 
to bear a child or end a pregnancy by limiting restric-
tions on the provision of abortion services. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Women’s Health Pro-
tection Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Access to safe, legal abortion services is es-
sential to women’s health and central to women’s 
ability to participate equally in the economic and so-
cial life of the United States. 
(2) Access to safe, legal abortion services has 
been hindered in the United States in various ways, 
including blockades of health care facilities and asso-
ciated violence; restrictions on insurance coverage; 
restrictions on minors’ ability to obtain services; and 
requirements and restrictions that single out abor-
tion providers and those seeking their services, and 
which do not further women’s health or the safety 
of abortion, but harm women by reducing the avail-
ability of services. 
(3) In the early 1990s, protests and blockades 
at health care facilities where abortions were per-
formed, and associated violence, increased dramati-
cally and reached crisis level, requiring Congres-
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sional action. Congress passed the Freedom of Ac-
cess to Clinic Entrances Act (Public Law 103–259) 
to address that situation and ensure that women 
could physically access abortion services. 
(4) Since 2010, there has been an equally dra-
matic increase in the number of laws and regulations 
singling out abortion that threaten women’s health 
and their ability to access safe abortion services by 
interfering with health care professionals’ ability to 
provide such services. Congressional action is now 
necessary to put an end to these restrictions. In ad-
dition, there has been a dramatic increase in the 
passage of laws that blatantly violate the constitu-
tional protections afforded women, such as bans on 
abortions prior to viability. 
(5) Legal abortion is one of the safest medical 
procedures in the United States. That safety is 
furthered by regulations that are based on science 
and are generally applicable to the medical profes-
sion or to medically comparable procedures. 
(6) Many State and local governments are im-
posing restrictions on the provision of abortion that 
are neither science-based nor generally applicable to 
the medical profession or to medically comparable 
procedures. Though described by their proponents as 
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