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Introduced Session

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (the Act). The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks' gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks' gestation, and if the woman elects to have an abortion, the physician is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 4 felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician who performs an abortion in violation of the Act.

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David LaRock (R)*,  Richard Anderson (R),  Terry Austin (R),  Richard Bell (R),  Kathy Byron (R),  Jeffrey Campbell (R),  Ben Cline (R),  Mark Cole (R),  Christopher Collins (R),  Marvin Cox (R),  Glenn Davis (R),  L. Mark Dudenhefer (R),  James Edmunds (R),  C. Matthew Fariss (R),  Hyland Fowler (R),  Nicholas Freitas (R),  C. Todd Gilbert (R),  Gordon Helsel (R),  William Howell (R),  Timothy Hugo (R),  Riley Ingram (R),  Terry Kilgore (R),  L. Scott Lingamfelter (R),  Daniel Marshall (R),  Jimmie Massie (R),  James Morefield (R),  Richard Morris (R),  John O'Bannon (R),  Robert Orrock (R),  Christopher Peace (R),  Brenda Pogge (R),  Charles Poindexter (R),  Margaret Ransone (R),  Lee Ware (R),  Michael Webert (R),  Tony Wilt (R),  Thomas Wright (R), 

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