I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6099 
To ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding 
the pain experienced by their unborn child. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BACH-
US, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. 
BOOZMAN, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 
CANNON, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. CARTER, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. DAVIS of Ken-
tucky, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. 
LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, 
Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. EHLERS, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. FER-
GUSON, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Ms. FOXX, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. 
GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. GOODE, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. HERGER, 
Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. ISTOOK, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, 
Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. 
LATHAM, Mr. TERRY, Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. 
MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. MELANCON, Mr. 
MILLER of Florida, Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, 
Mr. PENCE, Mr. PICKERING, Mr. PITTS, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. RAHALL, 
Mr. RENZI, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. RYAN of 
Wisconsin, Mr. RYUN of Kansas, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. 
TIAHRT, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, and Mr. 
GARY G. MILLER of California) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed 
regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child. 
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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 ‘‘Unborn Child Pain 
Awareness Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) At least by 20 weeks after fertilization, an 
unborn child has the physical structures necessary to 
experience pain. 
(2) There is substantial evidence that by 20 
weeks after fertilization, unborn children draw away 
from certain stimuli in a manner which in an infant 
or an adult would be interpreted as a response to 
pain. 
(3) Anesthesia is routinely administered to un-
born children who have developed 20 weeks or more 
after fertilization who undergo prenatal surgery. 
(4) There is substantial evidence that the abor-
tion methods most commonly used 20 weeks or more 
after fertilization cause substantial pain to an un-
born child, whether by dismemberment, poisoning, 
penetrating or crushing the skull, or other methods. 
Examples of abortion methods used 20 weeks or 
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more after fertilization include, but are not limited 
to the following: 
(A) The dilation and evacuation (D and E) 
method of abortion is commonly performed in 
the second trimester of pregnancy. In a dilation 
and evacuation abortion, the unborn child’s 
body parts are grasped with a long-toothed 
clamp. The fetal body parts are then torn from 
the body and pulled out of the vaginal canal. 
The remaining body parts are grasped and 
pulled out until only the head remains. The 
head is then grasped and crushed in order to 
remove it from the vaginal canal. 
(B) Partial-birth abortion is an abortion in 
which the abortion practitioner delivers an un-
born child’s body until only the head remains 
inside the womb, punctures the back of the 
child’s skull with a sharp instrument, and sucks 
the child’s brains out before completing the de-
livery of the dead infant, and as further defined 
in 18 U.S.C. 1531. 
(5) Expert testimony confirms that by 20 weeks 
after fertilization an unborn child may experience 
substantial pain even if the woman herself has re-
ceived local analgesic or general anesthesia. 
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