
Pennsylvania Conscientious Objection Act (SB 24)
This law was last updated on Mar 31, 2017
This law is Anti–Choice Anti–LGBTQ
Number
SB 24
Status
Proposed
Proposed
Jan 12, 2017
Sponsors
Co-sponsors: 12
Primary Sponsors: 1
Total Sponsors: 13
Full Bill Text
SB 24 would allow health-care professionals and institutions to refuse to participate in health-care services that violate their conscience, and would immunize health-care professionals and institutions from civil and criminal liability based on their refusal to provide prescriptions or participate in health-care services that violate their conscience.
The bill defines health-care service to include any of the following:
- abortion;
- artificial birth control;
- artificial insemination;
- assisted reproduction;
- emergency contraception;
- human cloning;
- human embryonic stem-cell research;
- fetal experimentation; and
- sterilization.
The bill would also prevent any kind of discrimination against health-care professionals or institutions who refuse to participate in health-care services that violate their conscience.
Related Legislation
Similar to SB 292, HB 383, and SB 276, all of which failed to pass in previous legislative sessions.
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