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GA HB1134
Bill
Status
Introduced
3/9/2020
Primary Sponsor
Beth Moore
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AI Summary
- Repeals Georgia's 2019 HB 481 (the LIFE Act), which banned abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat (approximately 6 weeks), and restores the previous legal framework prohibiting abortions at or after 20 weeks' gestational age
- Removes the legal definition of "natural person" as including an unborn child, eliminates the provision counting unborn children with detectable heartbeats in population-based determinations, and strikes related definitions of "detectable human heartbeat" and "unborn child" from the state code
- Eliminates the provision allowing unborn children with a detectable heartbeat to qualify as dependent minors for Georgia income tax purposes and repeals provisions extending child support obligations to cover unborn children
- Replaces the requirement that physicians determine the presence of a detectable heartbeat before performing an abortion with a requirement to determine the probable gestational age of the unborn child, and removes criminal penalties for noncompliance while retaining professional licensing sanctions
- Removes affirmative defenses added by HB 481 for medical professionals whose care results in accidental injury or death of an unborn child, and removes the civil cause of action for women upon whom an illegal abortion is performed
Legislative Description
Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act; repeal Act
Last Action
House Second Readers
3/12/2020
Full Bill Text
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