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Senate committee approves House Bill 90 to clarify medical care for complicated pregnancies
Summary
The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations gave House Bill 90 a favorable report after adopting a committee substitute that clarifies that certain pregnancy-related medical care is not an illegal abortion and adds language on perinatal palliative care.
The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations voted to report House Bill 90 favorably after adopting a committee substitute that clarifies how Kentucky law treats certain medical care for complicated pregnancies and adds provisions addressing perinatal palliative care.
Supporters told the committee the substitute aligns statutory language to remove ambiguities created by recent changes to abortion law and to protect clinicians providing care in cases such as miscarriage management, ectopic and molar pregnancies, severe infection and hemorrhage, and nonviable pregnancies. Representative Jason Nemes, one of the bill’s sponsors, and medical witnesses said the measure is aimed at ensuring clinicians…
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