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House adopts HB222, requiring prenatal pain‑information be offered in later abortions
Summary
The House approved HB222, the Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act, requiring physicians to inform women at least 24 hours before an abortion at or after 20 weeks about available anesthetic or analgesic options and associated risks; an amendment to note maternal risks was adopted.
The Utah House on Feb. 3 passed House Bill 222, the Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act, which requires that physicians inform a woman at least 24 hours before an abortion at 20 weeks’ gestation or later about any anesthetic or analgesic that could eliminate or alleviate fetal pain and any associated medical risks. The requirement is permissive — it does not mandate administration of analgesia.
Representative Carl Wimmer, the bill sponsor, cited…
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