Arizona Bill to Amend and Repeal Informed Consent Requirements (HB 2435)

HB 2435 includes multiple amendments to Arizona’s informed consent statute (Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 36-2153 & 36-2158) and would:

(1) include rape or incest as an exception to the requirement that the provisions of the statute be fulfilled before a woman’s consent to abortion will be considered “voluntary and informed”;

(2) remove the requirement that the provisions of the statute must be fulfilled 24 hours before the abortion;

(3) remove the 24-hour waiting period for medication abortion;

(4) remove the requirement that an ultrasound must be performed  24 hours prior to an abortion (the ultrasound requirement remains);

(5) include rape or incest as an exception to the requirement that an ultrasound be performed prior to an abortion.

STATUS

Similar to HB 2679, which failed to pass in 2014.

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