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Utah Senate advances abortion informed-consent measure after negotiated amendment
Summary
Senators advanced SB 60, a bill to require certain oral informed-consent information at least 24 hours before an abortion and to allow designated licensed health professionals in rural areas to start that process; sponsors say the performing physician must repeat the information if delivered by a non-physician. The measure passed the floor roll-call and was placed on the third-reading calendar.
Senator Lee Ray McAllister presented Senate Bill 60 as a limited, post-Casey measure that would require a pregnant woman to be orally informed of specified information at least 24 hours before an abortion. The information includes the nature of the proposed procedure and alternatives, the probable gestational age of the fetus and medical risks of carrying the pregnancy to term.
McAllister said the bill was pared to two central elements: the 24-hour waiting period and the form of informed consent. "The essence of it, this is simply the 24 hour rule and the nature of the con of the…
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