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AK HB34
Bill
Status
1/20/2009
Primary Sponsor
Nancy Dahlstrom
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AI Summary
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Amends AS 18.16.050(c) to redefine "partial-birth abortion" as a procedure in which a person deliberately and intentionally partially vaginally delivers a living fetus for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the fetus, then performs that overt act other than completion of delivery.
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Defines "partially vaginally delivers" as bringing about delivery of a fetus through the mother's vagina that causes the entire fetal head to be outside the mother's body in head-first presentation cases.
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For breech presentation, defines partial vaginal delivery as any part of the fetal trunk past the navel being outside the mother's body.
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Removes language requiring that the fetus be killed and delivery completed before the specified body parts are outside the mother's body.
Legislative Description
Partial-birth Abortion
Physicians
Last Action
REFERRED TO HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
1/20/2009