SOULS Act

Seeking Official Uncounted Lives Statistics Act or the SOULS Act

This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to include abortions, to the extent possible, when collecting and making available data on U.S. death numbers and rates.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7715 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7715

    To require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
  Prevention to include, to the extent possible, aborted children in 
                        death numbers and rates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 11, 2022

 Mr. Cawthorn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
  Prevention to include, to the extent possible, aborted children in 
                        death numbers and rates.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Seeking Official Uncounted Lives 
Statistics Act'' or the ``SOULS Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF ABORTED CHILDREN IN CDC DEATH NUMBERS AND RATES.

    In collecting and making available information on death numbers and 
rates in the United States, the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention shall, to the extent possible, include in such 
numbers and rates any abortion of a human embryo or fetus.
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