H.R. 1833104th CongressHouse Bill

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995

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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995 - Subjects anyone who knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce to a fine or imprisonment for not more than two years or both. Defines "partial-birth abortion" as an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery. Permits the father and (if the mother has not attained the age of 18 at the time of the abortion) the maternal grandparents to obtain, through a civil action, relief which would include money damages for all injuries and statutory damages equal to three times the cost of the partial-birth abortion, unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal conduct or the plaintiff consented to the abortion. Permits the affirmative defense to a prosecution or a civil action, which must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence, that the physician reasonably believed: (1) the procedure was necessary to save the mother's life; and (2) no other procedure would have sufficed for that purpose.

Introduced Jun 14, 1995
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Charles Canady

Republican

U.S. Representative · FL-12

Bipartisan — 115 cosponsors (18 D, 97 R)

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