Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the dilation-and-evacuation procedure for an abortion.

Highlights:

• Prohibits physicians from performing dilation-and-evacuation abortions unless the physical health or life of the patient is in danger (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes a parent of a minor who has undergone a dilation-and-evacuation abortion to sue the physician who performed the procedure for damages (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that physicians can be charged in court up to 1 year after performing a dilation-and-evacuation abortion (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits employees, pharmacists or patients acting under the direction of a physician who performs a dilation-and-evacuation abortion from being charged in court for the offense (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits the sale, dispensation, and administration of mifepristone for the purpose of inducing an abortion unless the individual doing so is a physician who has met the specified federal prescribing requirements (Sec. 1).

• Requires physicians to provide the state medical board with a written report of any incident involving a patient who has an adverse reaction to mifepristone including hospitalization, severe bleeding, or an incomplete abortion (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the unlawful distribution of mifepristone and performance of a dilation-and-evacuation abortion are both considered 4th degree felonies (Sec. 1).

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