File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Haines, Colburn, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled:
-
Women's Right to Know Act
Requiring, except in the case of a medical emergency, a physician to
obtain informed and voluntary consent from the woman upon whom an
abortion is to be performed or induced; requiring certain information
to be given to the woman; requiring written certification from the
woman; providing certain penalties for a physician who fails to obtain
informed and voluntary consent; and requiring the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene to publish and make available printed materials
containing certain information.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/7
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Richard Colburn, District 37
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ABORTION
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- PENALTIES
- PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- WOMEN
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
20-211
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available