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2008 SESSION
HB 1556 Unborn child pain information; requires doctors to offer to anesthetize fetus prior to abortion.
Introduced by: Benjamin L. Cline | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Unborn child pain information. Requires doctors to offer to anesthetize a fetus prior to abortion and to include in informational materials a statement that a fetus at 20 gestational weeks has the physical structures necessary to feel pain and react to physical stimuli in a manner that, in an infant or adult, would be interpreted as a response to pain.
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- 01/18/08 House: Presented and ordered printed 084735464
- 01/18/08 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/24/08 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/28/08 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 4-N)
- 01/30/08 House: Read first time
- 01/31/08 House: Read second time
- 01/31/08 House: Amendment by Delegate Marshall, R.G. rejected
- 01/31/08 House: Pending question ordered
- 01/31/08 House: Engrossed by House
- 02/01/08 House: Read third time and passed House (68-Y 31-N)
- 02/01/08 House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (68-Y 31-N)
- 02/01/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/04/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/28/08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)