Indiana Senate Bill 118 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-01-26 - Senator Brown L added as second author
Pending: Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Mandatory ultrasound before abortions. Provides that an abortion provider must do the following at least 48 hours before an abortion is performed: (1) Inform the pregnant woman of the availability of fetal ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services to enable the pregnant woman to view the image and hear the heartbeat of the fetus. (2) Immediately perform the fetal ultrasound imaging and allow the pregnant woman to hear the auscultation of the fetal heart tone if the fetal heart tone is audible. Requires the pregnant woman to view the fetal ultrasound imaging and listen to the auscultation

Mandatory ultrasound before abortions. Provides that an abortion provider must do the following at least 48 hours before an abortion is performed: (1) Inform the pregnant woman of the availability of fetal ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services to enable the pregnant woman to view the image and hear the heartbeat of the fetus. (2) Immediately perform the fetal ultrasound imaging and allow the pregnant woman to hear the auscultation of the fetal heart tone if the fetal heart tone is audible. Requires the pregnant woman to view the fetal ultrasound imaging and listen to the auscultation

Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]

Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-26	Senate	Senator Brown L added as second author
2017-01-04	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2017-01-04	Senate	Authored by Senator Kruse

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/118/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/6/d/b/16dbf2d6/SB0118.01.INTR.pdf