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House approves Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act after adding maternal‑risk clarification
Summary
Lawmakers passed HB222 to require 24‑hour disclosure about fetal‑pain anesthetic options for abortions at or after 20 weeks; the House adopted an amendment adding explicit mention of maternal medical risks and passed the bill 56–15.
Representative Carl Wimmer introduced HB222, the Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act, saying the bill requires physicians to inform women at least 24 hours before an abortion of possible anesthetic or analgesic options for fetuses at 20 weeks’ gestation or older and the medical risks those options may carry.
“This bill allows parents to make that decision, to make the decision on whether or not to give a pain reliever to the child prior to…
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