Pregnant Women Support Act

A bill to provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.

12/4/2007--Introduced.
Pregnant Women Support Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women to carry their pregnancy to term and new parents. Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women. Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a health insurance issuer offering individual coverage from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion or a waiting period or otherwise discriminating against a woman on the basis that she is pregnant. Provides for continuation coverage for newborns. Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to allow states to extend health care coverage to an unborn child. Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtain informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion. Provides for the collection and dissemination of information on Down syndrome and other prenatally diagnosed conditions. Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices. Requires the Secretary to provide for programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to complete high school. Authorizes grants for services to pregnant women who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to require a pregnancy determination for homicide victims. Requires group homes for pregnant and parenting women to provide counseling on adoption and parenting skills. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase and make refundable the tax credit for adoption expenses. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC program). Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990. Authorizes grants to provide to eligible mothers education on the health needs of their infants through visits to their homes by registered nurses. Authorizes grants for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
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Committees

• Senate Finance

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
December 04, 2007

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• Dec 13, 2007: Star Print ordered on on the bill.
• Dec 04, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14743-14745)
• Dec 04, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• Introduced on Dec 04, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.3192

Related Issue Areas:

• Medicine
• Abortion
• Actions and defenses
• Adoption
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• Authorization
• Block grants
• Breast feeding
• Budgets
• Child nutrition
• Children
• Civil rights
• Clinics
• Communications
• Cost of living adjustments
• Counseling
• Crimes against women
• Criminal investigation
• Criminal justice
• Damages
• Day care
• Discrimination in insurance
• Discrimination in medical care
• Down's syndrome
• Dropouts
• Economic policy
• Education
• Elementary and secondary education
• Families
• Family violence
• Federal aid to child health services
• Federal aid to education
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Finance
• Food
• Food stamps
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Government publicity
• Health education
• Health information systems
• Health insurance
• Health policy
• Health surveys
• Hereditary diseases
• Higher education
• Homicide
• Housing
• Imaging systems in medicine
• Income tax
• Indexing (Economic policy)
• Infants
• Informed consent (Medical law)
• Maternal health services
• Medical care
• Medically uninsured
• Nurses
• Parent and child
• Physical examinations
• Poor children
• Pregnancy
• Pregnant women
• Public service advertising
• Punitive damages
• School health programs
• Secondary education
• Social services
• Stalking
• State and local government
• Student housing
• Tax credits
• Tax refunds
• Taxation
• Technology
• Teenage pregnancy
• Victims of crimes
• Violence
• WIC program
• Welfare
• Welfare eligibility
• Women

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December 28, 2007 LIFE DIGEST: Roe would be dead had Clark said 'yes' to President ...

Casey introduced the Pregnant Women Support Act, S. 2407, Dec. 4. The legislation is part of Democrats for Life of America's 95-10 initiative, ...

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December 14, 2007 Bishops' Conference Praises Senate Introduction of 'Pregnant Women ...

Ms. McQuade noted that S. 2407 includes "vital provisions supporting pregnant and parenting university students, a population particularly at risk for ...

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December 05, 2007 Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Criticized in Abortion Ads, Says He's ...

Under Casey's bill, S. 2407, pregnant and parenting students in college would receive financial assistance to find housing and childcare. ...

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January 03, 2009 David Lindsay: Real Pro-Life Work

The Pregnant Women Support Act (H.R. 3192 and S. 2407) is a common-sense solution that people on all sides of the political debate can support. All of us should prevent women from being pressured toward abortion in this country and to ...

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January 02, 2009 Right Democrat: A Mainstream Populist Voice: Common Ground ...

The Pregnant Women Support Act (H.R. 3192 and S. 2407) is a common-sense solution that people on all sides of the political debate can support. All of us should prevent women from being pressured toward abortion in this country and to ...

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January 02, 2009 THE YOUNGBLOODS: OPEN LETTER TO OUR PRESIDENT-ELECT

This bill (H.R. 3192 and S. 2407), sponsored in the last Congress by Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN) and Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), would, among other things:. • establish a toll-free number to direct women to places that will provide support ...

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