HB 2225 conforms Arizona statute regarding ASRS with federal law.
HB 2225 failed the Retirement and Government Operations Committee.
A strike-everything amendment will be offered in the Retirement and Government Operations Committee with the following provisions:
The strike-everything amendment to HB 2225 requires physicians who are performing abortions to verbally inform the woman that the abortion will cause the child fetal pain, to ask the woman if she wants the child to be anesthetized and applies penalties to violations of this section of law.
· Requires physicians, before performing or inducing an abortion, to verbally inform the woman that the abortion will cause the child fetal pain and ask the woman if she wants the physician to anesthetize the child.
· Stipulates that before the abortion, the woman must certify in writing that the physician told the woman about fetal pain and asked the woman if she wanted the child anesthetized.
· Prescribes that a physician who violates this section is guilty of a Class 3 Misdemeanor and is subject to the suspension or revocation of their license.
· Defines abortion as the use of any means to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn child.
· Clarifies that abortion does not mean the use of an intrauterine device or birth control pill to inhibit or prevent ovulation, fertilization or the implantation of a fertilized ovum within the uterus.
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45th Legislature
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Second Regular Session 2 March
25, 2002
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