HB376 Summary

• Establishes the Alabama Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act, prohibiting any person from performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the mother.

• Defines dismemberment abortion as purposely dismembering a living unborn child and extracting pieces using clamps, forceps, tongs, scissors, or similar instruments, excluding suction-based procedures.

• Provides exception allowing accused individuals to seek a hearing before the State Board of Medical Examiners to determine if the procedure was medically necessary, with findings admissible at trial.

• Establishes civil remedies including injunctive relief, monetary damages for injuries, statutory damages equal to three times the cost of the procedure, and reasonable attorney fees for prevailing plaintiffs.

• Imposes criminal penalties of a $10,000 fine and/or imprisonment for not more than two years for violations, and protects the anonymity of women upon whom abortions are performed in all proceedings.