SPONSOR: Laubinger
The bill adds definitions of "abortion", "ectopic pregnancy", "miscarriage", "spontaneous abortion", "pregnant", "pregnancy", "pre-viability separation procedure", "stillbirth", and "intrauterine fetal demise".
This bill adds that an act is not an "abortion" if conducted with the intent to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, remove a dead unborn child caused by miscarriage, remove an ectopic pregnancy, or perform a pre-viability separation procedure when such procedure is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman or to prevent substantial or irreversible harm of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.
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