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Committee hears victims and advocates supporting bill to criminalize forced ingestion of abortion drugs
Summary
Supporters of HB 11-86, the "Women's Freedom from Coercion Act," told the House Judiciary Committee the bill would make it a crime to knowingly force or trick a pregnant person to ingest abortion-inducing medication; multiple witnesses described incidents and called for criminal penalties and survivor remedies.
Delegate April Miller presented House Bill 11-86 to the House Judiciary Committee, saying the bill “prohibits a person from knowingly and willfully causing another person to ingest without their consent an abortion inducing drug through fraud, coercion, or threat of force when the person knows or believes the other person is pregnant.”
Why it matters: Witnesses described incidents from other states and personal accounts they said illustrate how readily accessible medication abortion drugs can be misused to coerce or harm pregnant people.…
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