Kentucky Senate Panel Passes Informed Consent Abortion Bill.
Senate panel approves bill dealing with abortions
FRANKFORT – A pregnant woman would be required to have a face-to-face meeting with a doctor or designated health professional at least 24 hours before she could get an abortion under a bill a Senate committee approved Thursday.
Senate Bill 9, which the Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee approved on a 9-3 vote and sent to the full Senate, also requires the doctor who is to perform the abortion or a certified technician working with the doctor to perform an ultrasound on the woman and show it to her.
A doctor who violated the law would be fined up to $100,000 for a first offense and up to $250,000 for subsequent offenses.
In speaking against the bill, which the Senate also approved in last year’s law-making session, Dr. Connie White, a Frankfort obstetrician-gynecologist, said a patient could divert her eyes from an ultrasound but the doctor still would have to describe to her the image.
She also said it would be difficult to enforce the fines.
Derek Selznick, reproductive freedom project director for the state American Civil Liberties Union, said the bill would be harmful for poor or working women in rural areas who have to travel to get an abortion. He noted that the state’s two abortion clinics are in Louisville and Lexington.
But Sen. Katie Stine, R-Southgate, disputed that and said the bill is designed to treat each woman as an individual and give them the opportunity to ask questions of doctors.
Kathy Rutledge of Lexington, representing women who regret getting abortions, spoke in favor of the bill. So did Mike Janocik with the Kentucky Right to Life Association.
Voting against the measure sponsored by Sen. Jack Westwood, R-Erlanger, were Sens. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville; Tim Shaughnessy, D-Louisville; and Kathy Stein, D-Lexington.
Stein called it an attempt to end abortion in Kentucky.
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Editor's comment: Why would ANYONE quibble with informed consent?
FRANKFORT – A pregnant woman would be required to have a face-to-face meeting with a doctor or designated health professional at least 24 hours before she could get an abortion under a bill a Senate committee approved Thursday.
Senate Bill 9, which the Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee approved on a 9-3 vote and sent to the full Senate, also requires the doctor who is to perform the abortion or a certified technician working with the doctor to perform an ultrasound on the woman and show it to her.
A doctor who violated the law would be fined up to $100,000 for a first offense and up to $250,000 for subsequent offenses.
In speaking against the bill, which the Senate also approved in last year’s law-making session, Dr. Connie White, a Frankfort obstetrician-gynecologist, said a patient could divert her eyes from an ultrasound but the doctor still would have to describe to her the image.
She also said it would be difficult to enforce the fines.
Derek Selznick, reproductive freedom project director for the state American Civil Liberties Union, said the bill would be harmful for poor or working women in rural areas who have to travel to get an abortion. He noted that the state’s two abortion clinics are in Louisville and Lexington.
But Sen. Katie Stine, R-Southgate, disputed that and said the bill is designed to treat each woman as an individual and give them the opportunity to ask questions of doctors.
Kathy Rutledge of Lexington, representing women who regret getting abortions, spoke in favor of the bill. So did Mike Janocik with the Kentucky Right to Life Association.
Voting against the measure sponsored by Sen. Jack Westwood, R-Erlanger, were Sens. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville; Tim Shaughnessy, D-Louisville; and Kathy Stein, D-Lexington.
Stein called it an attempt to end abortion in Kentucky.
Read more here.
Editor's comment: Why would ANYONE quibble with informed consent?
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