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Culture & Conversation Abortion
This law was last updated on Aug 29, 2019
This law is Anti–Choice Model Bill
SB 1418
Proposed
Feb 7, 2019
Primary Sponsors: 1
Co-sponsors: 1
Total Sponsors: 2
SB 1418 would ban state funding of abortion. The bill would prohibit the state from awarding a grant to pay the direct or indirect costs of performing, inducing, referring, or counseling in favor of abortions, including without limitation:
The bill claims that such appropriations constitute an endorsement of “nonsecular conduct that is inseparably linked to the religion of Secular Humanism.”
The bill would prohibit the state from granting, appropriating or distributing a grant to an individual or entity that performs, induces, refers or counsels, in favor of “convenience abortions.” The bill would also prohibit the state from distributing a grant to an affiliate of any such person or entity.
The bill defines “convenience abortion” to mean:
[…]an elective abortion that means the act of using or prescribing an instrument, medicine, drug, device or another substance or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the unborn child.
An abortion would not be considered a “convenience abortion” when it is done to:
The bill clarifies that it does not affect the funding of a hospital, medical school or university. The restrictions would also not apply to funding available through Medicaid.
The bill claims that abortion clinics “tend to erode community standards of decency by encouraging promiscuity and normalizing false permission-giving beliefs about sex.”
Related Legislation
Based on model legislation drafted by the so-called “Special Forces of Liberty.” The group is led by Chris Sevier, who is known for filing anti-LGBTQ stunt lawsuits.
Companion bill to HB 1490.
Latest Action
2/7/19 – Introduced.
Primary Sponsor
Co-sponsor