House Leaders Planning Rape Exception For Abortion Bill
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After the uproar over a lawmaker’s comment about sexual-assault victims, Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are preparing a rape exception for a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Pregnancies caused by rape or incest will be excluded from the ban in the legislation, H.R. 1797, under a change to be added by the Rules Committee to avoid a separate vote.