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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 868 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit service by Representatives, Senators, and Federal judges.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person may serve as a Representative for more than ten years during any twelve-year period. Directs that no person may serve as a Senator for more than twelve years during any fourteen-year period. Provides that no person may serve as a judge of the Supreme Court or an inferior court of the United States for more than ten years during any twelve-year period.

Bill· SS. 3100 (94th)referred

American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1976

American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation Act - Declares the finding of Congress that the Constitution of the United States established the longest surviving government now existing in the world, that the bicentennial is an appropriate time to renew our commitment to the principles underlying the Constitution, and that the period between the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the 200th anniversary of the Constitution provides an appropriate period to study the principles of the American Revolution, assess where our society and government now stand, and develop goals for America's third century. Establishes the American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation consisting of 15 members appointed by the President with appropriate supporting staff. Authorizes the Foundation to carry out a program of grants-in-aid to groups and individuals to assist in developing or supporting projects and programs to improve the understanding of our heritage, to maintain and strengthen democratic institutions, and to develop fresh insights and approaches to resolving the social and economic problems which confront us. Authorizes the Foundation to accept, use, and dispose of donations to assist in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for grants under this Act of $35,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1977 through 1981 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1989. Authorizes to be appropriated to administer this Act $2,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1977 through 1981 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1989. Requires the Foundation to report to the President and Congress annually to summarize its activities for the preceding year. Terminates the Foundation on July 31, 1989, at which time its duties with respect to insuring that grants made were used for the purpose they were intended are transferred to the Office of Management and Budget.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 175 (94th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the terms of office and method of selection of judges of the Federal courts.

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each judge of the Supreme Court shall hold office for a term of eight years. Directs that each judge of an inferior court established by the Congress shall hold office for a term of six years. Provides that each judge of each United States district court shall be elected by the persons within the judicial district within which such court is situated. Directs the Congress to provide by law a division of all the judgeships to which this article applies so that the terms of office of one-fourth of the judgeships of the Supreme Court, and one-third of the judgeships of inferior courts, shall terminate every second year.

Bill· HRH.R. 12342 (94th)referred

American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation Act

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976

American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation Act - Declares the finding of Congress that the Constitution of the United States established the longest surviving government now existing in the world, that the bicentennial is an appropriate time to renew our commitment to the principles underlying the Constitution, and that the period between the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the 200th anniversary of the Constitution provides an appropriate period to study the principles of the American Revolution, assess where our society and government now stand, and develop goals for America's third century. Establishes the American Constitution Bicentennial Foundation consisting of 15 members appointed by the President with appropriate supporting staff. Authorizes the Foundation to carry out a program of grants-in- aid to groups and individuals to assist in developing or supporting projects and programs to improve the understanding of our heritage, to maintain and strengthen democratic institutions, and to develop fresh insights and approaches to resolving the social and economic problems which confront us. Authorizes the Foundation to accept, use, and dispose of donations to assist in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for grants under this Act of $35,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1977 through 1981 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1989. Authorizes to be appropriated to administer this Act $2,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1977 through 1981 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1989. Requires the Foundation to report to the President and Congress annually to summarize its activities for the preceding year. Terminates the Foundation on July 31, 1989, at which time its duties with respect to insuring that grants made were used for the purpose they were intended are transferred to the Office of Management and Budget.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 842 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 841 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 834 (94th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1976

Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person', as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a resasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.

Bill· SS. 3014 (94th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for its administration by a Federal Election Commission appointed in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution.

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1976

Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish in the executive branch the Federal Election Commission whose six members will be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that no more than three members shall be affiliated with the same political party.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 171 (94th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution limiting the eligibility of Representatives and Senators for the Presidency or Vice Presidency.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976

Constitutional Amendment - States that no person who has been a Representative or a Senator shall be eligible to become President or Vice President until the end of the two-year period beginning on the last date on which such person was a Representative or Senator.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 820 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, Congress shall assemble in special session from which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect. Gives the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 821 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution limiting the eligibility of Representatives and Senators for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1976

Constitutional Amendment - States that no person who has been a Representative or a Senator shall be eligible to become President or Vice President until the end of the two-year period beginning on the last date on which such person was a Representative or Senator.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1040 (94th)passed

A resolution providing for the consideration of House Joint Resolution 280, a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1976

Provides that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 280) to amend the Constitution to provide for the representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress. States that after general debate, which shall be confined to the joint resolution and shall continue not to exceed three hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, the joint resolution shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Declares that, at the conclusion of the consideration of the joint resolution for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the joint resolution to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the joint resolution and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.

Bill· SS. 2953 (94th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for its administration by a Federal Election Commission appointed in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution.

United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1976

Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish as an independent establishment of the Executive branch the Federal Election Commission whose members are the Secretary of the Senate (ex officio), the Clerk of the House (ex officio), and six members appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. States that no more than three members appointed by the President may be affiliated with the same party.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 796 (94th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of life to the unborn.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life guaranteed in the Constitution, every human being, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any State, shall be deemed, from the moment of fertilization, to be a person and entitled to the right to life.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 794 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the term of office of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives shall be 4 years.

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen every second and fourth year by the people of the several States. States that the term of office of a Representative shall be four years. Directs that the Members be divided into two classes. Provides that the seats of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year and the seats of the second class shall be vacated at the expiration of the fourth year. Requires that seats created by reapportionment or the admission of a new State be divided in a similar fashion.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 790 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 785 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the nomination of individuals for election to the Offices of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the official candidates of political parties for President shall be nominated at a primary election by direct popular vote. Provides that each voter shall be eligible to vote only in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation. Directs that no person shall be a candidate for nomination for President except in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation, and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all the States if he shall have filed a petition at the seat of the Government of the United States in accordance with this resolution. Provides that a political party shall be recognized as such if the electors for candidates for President and Vice President of such party received an aggregate number of votes, equal in number to at least ten percent of the total number of votes cast throughout the United States for all electors for candidates for President and Vice President in the most recent previous presidential election. Requires that primary elections be held at the same time throughout the United States. Provides that the person who shall have received the greatest number of votes cast by the voters of the party of his registered affiliation shall be the official candidate of such party for President throughout the United States, if such number be a plurality amounting to at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast. Provides that if no person receives at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast for candidates for nomination for President by the voters of a political party, then the Congress shall provide for a runoff election. Directs each party to nominate a candidate for Vice President using the procedure stated in this resolution for the selection of Presidential candidates. Provides that in the event of the death or resignation or disqualification of the official candidate of any political party for President, the person nominated by such political party for Vice President shall resign the Vice-Presidential nomination and shall be the official candidate of such party for President.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 786 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the officies of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect. Gives the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 787 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the Constitution does not require States to take into account the race or color of students in assigning them to schools.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no State shall be required to take into account the race or color of any student in assigning that student to a school of that State unless the student so chooses. Specifies that this article shall not be construed to permit any State to segregate students in the schools of that State on the basis of race or color.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 779 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life, the word "person" as used in the fifth and fourteenth Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that nothing in such article shall prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 775 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of life to the unborn.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that with respect to the right to life guaranteed in the Constitution, every human being, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any State, shall be deemed, from the moment of fertilization, to be a person and entitled to the right to life.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 774 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person', as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a resasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 770 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to permit the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in certain cases.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the States and Congress shall have authority to impose the death penalty for crimes involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life. Provides that in the case of treason against the United States the Congress shall have the power to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 757 (94th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. States that each Senator or Representative so elected shall be an inhabitant of the District and shall possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 753 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1975

Constitutional Amendment - States that with respect to the right to life, the word 'person' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective dependency including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 750 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the popular election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1975

Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the election by popular direct vote of the President and Vice President of the United States. Authorizes Congress to establish by law the time, place, and manner of the election of the President and Vice President, and the qualifications of persons eligible to vote in the election.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 747 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975

Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person,' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 741 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1975

Constitutional Amendment - States that with respect to the right to life, the word 'person' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective dependency including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HRH.R. 10977 (94th)referred

A bill to exercise the power of the Congress under article IV of the Constitution to declare the effect of certain State judicial proceedings respecting the custody of children.

United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1975

Requires that any decree of the Court of a State or the District of Columbia, respecting the custody of children of divorced or separated parents, shall be enforced by every State and the District of Columbia according to the terms of such decree.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 881 (94th)referred

Resolution impeaching Jonathan Goldstein U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Bruce Goldstein, principal assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, for high crimes and misdemeanors within the meaning of article II, section 4, of the Constitution of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975

States that Jonathan Goldstein, United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Bruce Goldstein, principal assistant United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, ought to be and are hereby impeached by the House of Representatives for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 718 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1975

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year to: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Directs the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays other than trust funds for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Article in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution, agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 716 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United states to provide that the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year shall not exceed the revenue of the United States, except in time of war or national emergency.

United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1975

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, except in time of war or national emergency declared by Congress, no law shall make any appropriation for any fiscal year which would exceed the estimate of the total revenue of the United States. Provides for the appointment by Congress of a Congressional Budget Officer in the legislative branch of Government. States that such officer shall estimate the total revenue of the United States at the beginning of each fiscal year. Directs that any amount appropriated which exceeds the total revenue shall be deducted from the estimate of total revenue made for the following fiscal year.

Bill· HRH.R. 10469 (94th)referred

A bill to require disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency budget in accordance with the Constitution.

United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1975

Revises the Central Intelligence Agency Act to require that the Agency expend only such sums as Congress appropriates for its use. Requires that all funds made available to the agency must be expended in accordance with the provisions of law relating to the expenditure of Government funds except for portions which shall be accounted for by the President. Directs that no funds may be transferred to the Agency from any other Government agency unless Congress authorizes such transfer.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 706 (94th)referred

Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States limiting deficit spending by the Federal Government.

United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1975

Constitutional Amendment - States that the Congress shall not have power for any fiscal accounting period to draw money from the Treasury in consequence of appropriations made by law in an amount which exceeds in the aggregate the total amount of the revenues of the United States (exclusive of borrowed sums) during the previous fiscal accounting period and five percent of those revenues, except where Congress by two-thirds vote of both Houses during a fiscal accounting period shall determine that a national emergency requires that additional money be drawn from the Treasury during that same fiscal accounting period.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 141 (94th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1975

Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word "person", as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause the death of the mother.

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