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Culture & Conversation Sexual Health
This law was last updated on Feb 23, 2017
This law is Anti–Choice
SB 872
Proposed
Feb 14, 2017
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SB 872 would require a physician to submit an abortion complication report no later than the 30th day after the date the physician treats a patient for a complication that resulted or may have resulted from an abortion.
The report would need to be submitted to the vital statistics unit of the department by:
The abortion complication report would need to include:
The bill would require all reports to be made confidential and not be considered open records. The information may not be released or made public on subpoena or otherwise, except that release may be made:
Facility Reporting Requirements
The bill would also require a hospital or medical care facility to submit an annual report to the department that states the number of patients who in the preceding year were treated at the hospital for complications resulting from an abortion. Such reports would be required to be confidential and not open to public, with the same exceptions for release as stated above.
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