Teen Endangerment Act
n.— «Late the evening of Sept. 29, senators declined to invoke “cloture”—closing debate and moving to a substantive vote on a measure—on S. 403, the “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.”…But abortion-rights advocates said the Senate’s action was necessary because of the draconian restrictions in the legislation. They referred to it as the “Teen Endangerment Act.”» —“Senators block last-minute abortion bill at end of 109th Congress” by Robert Marus Associated Baptist Press Oct. 3, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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