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1999 SESSION
HB 2108 Informed written consent for abortion.
Introduced by: Robert F. McDonnell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Informed written consent for abortion. Establishes certain conditions for obtaining informed written consent from a pregnant woman, of any age, prior to performing an abortion, including the requirement that each woman be given, at least 24 hours before the abortion, an explanation of the proposed procedures or protocols; an instruction that she may withdraw her consent at any time prior to the procedure; an offer to speak with the physician who is to perform the abortion; a statement of the probable gestational age of the fetus at the time the procedure is to be performed; and an offer to review printed materials which must be developed by the Department of Health. The printed materials to be developed by the Department of Health include information (i) indexed by geography area on services available to assist a woman through pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing; (ii) depicting gestational development in two-week increments; and (iii) describing methods of abortion and the risks of abortion and full-term pregnancy. Informed written consent is not required in medical emergencies, which are defined as conditions which, on the basis of the physician’s good faith clinical judgment, so complicate the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. This bill will become effective on October 1, 1999.
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- 01/20/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 999082350
- 01/20/99 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/25/99 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 1
- 02/03/99 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 8-N)
- 02/04/99 House: Read first time
- 02/05/99 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/99 House: Read second time
- 02/06/99 House: Amendments by Ms. Darner rejected (35-Y 57-N)
- 02/06/99 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (35-Y 57-N 1-A)
- 02/06/99 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/06/99 House: Engrossed by House (61-Y 39-N)
- 02/06/99 House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT (61-Y 39-N)
- 02/07/99 House: Read third time and passed House (61-Y 39-N)
- 02/07/99 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (61-Y 39-N)
- 02/07/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/18/99 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Ed. & Health (8-Y 7-N)