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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 26
To amend various provisions of law to ensure that services related to abortion
are made available to the same extent as are all other pregnancy-
related services under federally funded programs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 5, 1993
Mr. FAZIO of California (for himself, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. BEILENSON,
Mr. BERMAN, Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms.
DELAURO, Mr. EDWARDS of California, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts,
Mr. FROST, Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut, Mrs. KENNELLY, Mr.
KOPETSKI, Mrs. LOWEY
of New York, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr.
MACHTLEY, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. MATSUI, Ms. MOLINARI,
Mr. MORAN, Mrs. MORELLA, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PAYNE of New Jersey,
Mrs. SCHROEDER, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. STARK, Mr. STUDDS, Mr.
TORRES, Mr. TOWNS, Mrs. UNSOELD, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. WYDEN, and
Mr. ZIMMER) introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to
the Committees on Armed Services, the District of Columbia, Energy and
Commerce, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Post
Office and Civil Service
A BILL
To amend various provisions of law to ensure that services
related to abortion are made available to the same extent
as are all other pregnancy-related services under federally
funded programs.
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 ‘‘Reproductive Health
Equity Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) abortion is a legal medical service related to
pregnancy and the choice to elect an abortion is a
personal, private right protected by the Constitution;
(2) the Federal Government provides assistance
for pregnancy-related care for substantial numbers
of women under a variety of Federal programs, in-
cluding the medicaid program, the Indian health
care program, the Federal employees’ health benefits
program (FEHBP), the program of health care for
military dependents and retirees (CHAMPUS), the
Peace Corps program, general payments to the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the program of medical serv-
ices to Federal penal and correctional institutions;
(3) pregnant women who otherwise are provided
pregnancy-related care under these programs have
been denied equal access to health care services due
to Congress’ severe and unjustified restrictions on
their freedom to choose services that relate to abor-
tion; and
(4) denial of access to health care services be-
cause those services relate to abortion is unjust and
‘‘(d) Medical care provided under this section shall
include services related to abortion to the same extent as
such care includes other pregnancy-related services.’’.
(b) DEPENDENTS.—Section 1077(a)(8) of such title,
relating to medical care for dependents of members of the
uniformed services, is amended—
(1) by striking out the comma after ‘‘infant
care’’ and inserting in lieu thereof a period;
(2) by striking out ‘‘including’’ and inserting in
lieu thereof ‘‘Such care shall include’’; and
(3) by inserting before the period at the end the
following: ‘‘and services related to abortion to the
same extent as other pregnancy-related services’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1093 of
such title is repealed.
SEC. 7. PEACE CORPS.
Section 5(e) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C.
2504(e)), relating to health care for Peace Corps volun-
teers, is amended by inserting before the period at the end
of the first sentence the following: ‘‘, except that health
care provided under this subsection to volunteers during
their service shall include services related to abortion to
the same extent as such care includes other pregnancy-
related services’’.
SEC. 8. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Section 503 of the District of Columbia Self-Govern-
ment and Governmental Reorganization Act, relating to
the authorization of appropriations of the Federal pay-
ment to the District of Columbia, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(b) Amounts appropriated pursuant to the author-
ization provided under this section shall be made available
for services related to abortion to the same extent as such
amounts may be made available for other pregnancy-relat-
ed services.’’.
SEC. 9. FEDERAL PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITU-
TIONS.
Section 4005(a) of title 18, United States Code, re-
lating to medical services to the Federal penal and correc-
tional institution, is amended by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, medical services provided under this sub-
section shall include services related to abortion to the
same extent as they include other pregnancy-related serv-
ices.’’.
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