Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that revises the definition of a health care facility in Pennsylvania to include abortion facilities, and holds these facilities to the same legal standards as freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities.

Highlights:

• Specifies that an abortion facility is included in the defintion of a health care facility (Sec 1).

• Defines "abortion facility" as any public or private hospital, clinic, center, medical school, medical training institution, physicians office, infirmary, or other institution which provides surgical services meant to terminate the clinically disposable pregnancy of a woman (Sec 1).

• Requires abortion facilities to have the same fire and safety standards, personnel and equipment requirements, and quality assurance checks as other ambulatory surgical facilities (Sec 2).

• Requires abortion facilities to pay a licensing fee of $250 (Sec 3).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text