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The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Abortions after 20 weeks would be allowed if the mother’s life is threatened by the pregnancy or if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

This bill would require that physicians performing abortions only do so in manners which provide the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive. If the unborn child has the potential to survive outside the womb after the abortion procedure, the physician performing the abortion would be required to ensure that a second physician trained in neonatal resuscitation is present and prepared to provide care for the child.

If a child is born alive after an abortion attempt, this bill would require any health care practitioner present at the time to render care to the child. This bill would also require that the child be immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.

Health care practitioners and employees of hospitals, physicians' offices, or abortion clinics would be required to report any violation of this bill's provisions to the appropriate state and/or federal law enforcement agencies.

If enacted, doctors who violate the bill's requirements would face a fine, up to five years in prison, or both. A woman who receives a prohibited abortion could not be prosecuted for violating this legislation. The bill defines abortion as any medication or procedure “to intentionally kill the unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant.”

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