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Senator Cash introduces measure to revise abortion definitions, cites 2023 "heartbeat" law and calls for legal protection from fertilization
Summary
Senator Cash introduced a bill to amend abortion-related definitions in state law and described the measure as an effort to ensure legal protection for what he described as human life beginning at fertilization; the bill was referred to the Medical Affairs Committee.
Senator Cash, the senator from Anderson, introduced a bill described in the reading clerks summary as amending code provisions related to definitions for "abortifacient" and "contraception," revising the definition of contraceptive, and deleting definitions for "fetal fatal fetal anomaly" and "fetal heartbeat." The reading clerk recorded the bill as referred to the Medical Affairs Committee.
During introductory remarks, Senator Cash referenced prior…
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