
Culture & Conversation Law and Policy
This law was last updated on May 22, 2015
This law is Anti–Choice
HB 215
Failed to Pass
Jan 7, 2011
Primary Sponsors: 6
Total Sponsors: 6
HB 215 would have banned abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization unless, on the physician’s reasonable medical judgment, an abortion is necessary to avert the woman’s death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.
The bill states that an abortion does not become necessary if the risk of death or a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function arises from a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct that may result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.
The bill also states that an abortion performed after 20 weeks must be performed in a manner that provides the best opportunity for the “unborn child” to survive, unless in the physician’s reasonable medical judgment, termination of the pregnancy in that manner would pose a greater risk of death or substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function than would another method. No such greater risk would exist if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct which will result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a bodily function.
Physician Reporting Requirements
Abortion providers would have been required to report certain information to the Vital Statistics Branch, including:
Reporting Requirements
By June 30 of each year, the Vital Statistics Branch would have been required to issue a public report providing statistics compiled from all the reports provided by physicians.
STATUS
HB 215 was introduced in 2011 where it died in the Health and Welfare Committee. It was re-introduced in 2013 where it once again died in the Health and Welfare Committee. The same bill was introduced in the Senate in 2014 (SB 57). It passed the Senate but died in the House Health and Welfare Committee.
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