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House committee advances HB 126 after public opposition and withdrawn amendment
Summary
The House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee advanced House Bill 126, a proposed "human heartbeat" act, following public testimony opposing the measure and a withdrawn amendment tied to Wyoming statute 35-6-403(b); the bill passed on a 7-2 committee roll call.
CHEYENNE — The House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee voted to advance House Bill 126 (HB 126), sometimes described in testimony as a "heartbeat" or "human heartbeat" measure, after hearing extended public opposition and briefly considering an amendment that was later withdrawn.
Chairman Rodriguez Williams called the committee to order and opened the evening session to online public testimony on HB 126. Three online witnesses opposed the bill: C. Shaffer of Burlington, Tayah Aubrecht of Teton County and Elliot Hinkle of Casper. Shaffer criticized the religious arguments used to support the bill and described the statutory "heartbeat" language as a cellular line that is not yet a functioning heart. Aubrecht, speaking as a pregnant woman and mother, said, "Like all heartbeat bills, it is intended to override medical consensus and ascribe fetal personhood 18 weeks before viability,"…
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