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AZ HB2159
Bill
Status
4/23/2014
Primary Sponsor
Debbie Lesko
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AI Summary
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Removes a 90-day deadline for the Department of Health Services to establish a website describing unborn child development and listing abortion alternatives, making the website requirement ongoing without a specific timeframe.
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Requires physicians to inform women at least 24 hours before abortion of the procedure name, medical risks, alternatives, gestational age, fetal characteristics, and risks of carrying to term.
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Mandates that women receive information about available financial assistance, parental support obligations, adoption services, and their right to withdraw consent without penalty.
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Establishes civil liability for physicians who fail to obtain informed consent, allowing women, the father (if married), and maternal grandparents (if mother was a minor) to sue for damages up to $5,000 or three times the abortion cost, plus attorney fees.
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Prohibits coercion of abortion through employment contracts, financial threats, or intimidation, with specific protections for minors and requirements for abortion clinics to post warning signs about forced abortion.
Legislative Description
Technical correction; abortion; informed consent
Last Action
Referred to House RULES Committee
4/23/2014