A bill to exercise the power of the Congress to enforce the 14th amendment by defining certain 14th amendments rights, and to limit the jurisdiction of certain Federal courts with respect to certain cases involving the validity of State laws concerning abortion.

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Provides that nothing in the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be construed to bar any State from exercising the power to regulate or prohibit the practice of abortion, except that no State may prohibit an abortion that is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. States that no court established by Act of Congress shall have jurisdiction in any case or controversy in which a right to abortion is maintained contrary to the law of a State.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 14 June 1973

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