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House floor debates informed-consent video and narrow amendments to abortion law
Summary
Representatives debated substitute Senate Bill 118, which would add an optional video-based informed-consent component and related technical changes; sponsors framed it as standardizing information, while opponents called parts paternalistic and potentially traumatizing for some women.
Representative Richard Stratton moved an amendment and presented substitute Senate Bill 118 on March 6, telling the House the measure aims to standardize informed-consent information for women considering abortion and to allow an educational video option created by the state health department.
Stratton described the bill as an "education" measure designed to ensure consistent information and said the human resources interim committee would review the state-created module. He said the bill increases flexibility about where the material can be viewed and creates checks and balances to present information "in a way that's most helpful to them." (Representative Stratton)
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