1st Sub.
H.B.
235
ABORTION LAW REVISIONS
house floor
Amendments
Amendment 1 February 7, 2007 11:08 am
Representative Kerry W. Gibson
proposes the following amendments:
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1, Lines 13 through 18
:
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. provides that no person may perform an abortion, unless:
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. it is necessary in order to avert a woman's death or to avert a serious risk to a
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woman of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function;
{
or
}
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. the woman is pregnant as the result of incest or rape that is reported to law
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enforcement before the abortion is performed, and the abortion is performed
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before the unborn child is viable to survive outside the woman's womb;
or
. the unborn child has a medical condition that makes it highly unlikely that the
unborn child will survive more than 24 hours after birth, there is not a medically acceptable
intervention or procedure that may be performed without undue risk to the mother's health and that
has a reasonable chance of extending the unborn child's life beyond 24 hours without the use of artificial
life support;
2. Page
2, Line 50
:
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of the woman;
{
or
}
3. Page
3, Lines 57 through 58
:
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(iii) the abortion is performed before the unborn child is viable to survive outside the
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woman's womb
{
.
}
; or
(c) on the basis of the attending physician's good faith clinical judgment:
(i) the unborn child has a medical condition that makes it highly unlikely that the
unborn child will survive more than 24 hours after birth; and
(ii) there is not a medically acceptable intervention or procedure that:
(A) may be performed before or after the child's birth;
(B) may be performed without undue risk to the mother's health; and
(C) has a reasonable chance of extending the unborn child's life beyond 24
hours.
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