Arizona Bill to Amend and Repeal Informed Consent Requirements (HB 2679)

HB 2679 includes multiple amendments to Arizona’s informed consent statute (A.R.S. §§ 36-2153, 36-2156, and 36-2158) and would have:

(1) included 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) removed the requirement that the provisions of the statute must be fulfilled 24 hours before the abortion;

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

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

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

STATUS

Similar to HB 2678, which failed to pass in 2014.

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