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Senate takes up wide‑ranging abortion bill; substitute language and access concerns prompt further work
Summary
Senate debate on House Bill 467, which revises abortion‑related provisions for providers and clinics, produced substitute language and a contentious exchange about institutional refusal of care. Floor sponsors substituted the bill and then circled it for further consideration and Executive Appropriations Committee review.
Senator McKay (floor sponsor) and colleagues brought Second Substitute House Bill 467 to the Senate floor. The sponsor said the proposal aligns state law with the Legislature’s intent to protect unborn life while preserving narrowly drawn exceptions for medical emergencies and fetuses with serious abnormalities; it would also make certain abortions performed in violation of statute unprofessional conduct for licensed providers.
On the floor, Senator Escamilla offered a verbal substitute aimed not at the policy core but at institutional access: he asked that the code section allowing healthcare facilities to refuse participation in abortion care (section cited on the floor as 76‑7‑306) be repealed so that hospitals — to which the…
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