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Senate amends abortion statistics bill to calendar-year reporting, adds optional self-reported reason; debate centers on data use and privacy
Summary
Senators amended SB60 on Feb. 11 to change reporting from fiscal to calendar year and to include an optional, self-reported reason for seeking an abortion (language the sponsor said mirrors federal forms). The measure drew questions about privacy, administrative burden, and the utility of collecting race and reason data.
Senate Bill 60, addressing abortion statistics and reporting requirements, was debated and amended on the Senate floor on Feb. 11. Sponsor Senator Dayton moved two verbal amendments to change reporting from a fiscal-year schedule to a calendar-year schedule and to add optional self-reporting of the reason a patient sought an abortion.
Dayton said the Department of Health requested the switch from fiscal-year reporting to calendar-year reporting and that the optional ‘‘reason for seeking an abortion’’ question is already part of the federal reporting form; including…
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