Health of Women and Children Act of 2023

> *For the topic of the bill, see Abortion in Chawosauria and the previously unsuccessful proposed abortion law, see Protection of Life Act of 2022*
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## Act

### Enacted By

2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government

Imperial Coat of Arms of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Legislative Action

### Proposed To

2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government on April 28, 2023

## Executive Action

### Signed by

Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker

The **Health of Women and Children Act of 2023** is a Chawosaurian abortion law and an amendment to the Penal Code of the Empire of Chawosauria that only outlaws abortion just above the third trimester but with serious and mandatory emergency exceptions such as fatal fetal injury and damage or a miscarriage that occurs at the third trimester, while abortion below the third trimester remains entirely unregulated. The Health of Women and Children Act of 2023 is a compromise abortion law that benefits both the pro-choice and pro-life sides. The Health of Women and Children Act of 2023 was negotiated and enacted into Chawosaurian law following the failure of the proposed Protection of Life Act of 2022.

The Health of Women and Children Act also provides welfare assistance to low income mothers to keep abortion from being a final resort, while at the same time enacting regulations that make abortion safe for pregnant women who are vulnerable to the negative side affects of pregnancy that can cause death or abnormality to the child, as well as allowing abortion for women who are victims of rape and incest. It also outlaws "crisis pregnancy centers" as unlawful and unauthorized medical establishments and a form of public harassment punishable with 40-years of hard manual labor and a $235,000 per year fine for life.

The last proposed abortion ban was more hawkish, the Protection of Life Act of 2022 was proposed in the wake of the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States, which ended the era of the nationwide protection of women to have an abortion anywhere in the United States with no worry to travel out of state to do so before Roe. These complications of obtaining an abortion were restored by Roe's downfall in 2022, forcing women to go through hurtles to seek the procedure. The overturning of Roe has been the 50-year project by the U.S. Republican Party, but once Roe was overturned, the chickens had came home to roost on the Republicans and the pro-life movement itself, Roe was overturned at a bad time for the Republicans during the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, and the Republicans greatly underperformed expectations in the 2022 midterms and the pro-life movement saw blistering defeats in abortion referendums in both Democratic and Republican states, equally. The Chawosaurian Protection of Life Act of 2022 crumbled hard in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace due to stubborn resistance from a socialist government and the threat of receiving a Supreme Leader's absolute veto.

Reeling from the embarrassment of the Protection of Life Act of 2022's downfall, the Chawosaurian pro-life movement was forced to come up with a compromise abortion policy that benefits all sides. Leading to the proposal of the Health of Women and Children Act of 2023. It was presented to the Chawosaurian government on April 28, 2023, and is awaiting consideration.

On September 7, 2023, the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government have successfully reached a deal to pass the Health of Women and Children Act into law.

## Background

> *Main article: Abortion in Chawosauria*
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Abortion became a wave issue following the United States abandoned its nationwide right to an abortion on June 24, 2022,

## Provisions

Accepted provisions of the Health of Women and Children Act of 2023
1. Abortion shall be legal up to the third trimester
2. Third trimester abortion shall be illegal but with emergency exceptions
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1. Sham pregnancy crisis centers must be reported and raised by the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces
2. Leaders and underlings of sham pregnancy crisis centers will face life imprisonment if convicted based on evidence
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1. Makes by law free school meals for Chawosaurian children, making law the Free School Meals Act of 2023
2. Makes by law universal childcare and daycare
3. Makes by law universal Pre-K
4. Requires by law high-income earners fund these programs through taxes
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1. Criminalizes the refusal of the request to perform an abortion deemed legal under this statute
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1. Life imprisonment for intentional violation of this law
2. Unintentional or ill-advised activities that unintentionally resulted in injury of the fetus is 20-years imprisonment
3. A woman who receives and a doctor who performs an abortion after the third trimester are penalized with a $200 fine
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## Negotiations and Enactment

The Health of Women and Children Act of 2023 was written in the aftermath of the failure of the Protection of Life Act of 2022.

## See also

* Abortion in Chawosauria
* Protection of Life Act of 2022