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Updated: 7:04 AM Mar 9, 2010
Bill Requiring Doctors to Offer Ultra Sounds Before Abortions Advances
After a long and sometimes emotional debate in the House Health and Human Resources Committee, a bill requiring doctors to offer women ultra sounds before an abortion passed out of the committee.
Posted: 11:28 PM Mar 8, 2010Reporter: Kallie Cart Email Address: kallie.cart@wsaz.com |
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- After a long and sometimes emotional debate in the House Health and Human Resources Committee, a bill requiring doctors to offer women ultra sounds before an abortion passed out of the committee.
The committee discussed the bill for nearly four hours Monday. Several amendments were proposed to change the language of the bill. Most of those amendments failed by a narrow margin.
The bill is an addition to the Women's Right to Know bill.
"This isn't the last bill. There's going to be another hoop that physicians have to jump through, that women have to jump through," Delegate Barbara Fleischauer, a Democrat from Monongalia County says. "It is insulting to women."
Delegate Fleischauer says the bill will open up doctors to lawsuits and keep gynecologists from practicing in West Virginia.
But other lawmakers say the bill is simply about providing women with all the information available.
"It provides women with one more piece of information when they're making such a crucial life and death decision," Delegate Patrick Lane, a Republican from Kanawha County says. "They have an opportunity to take a look at the ultra sound and allow that to inform their decision whether or not to go forward with the abortion."
The bill is a bi-partisan bill and has already passed the Senate. The vote in the House Health and Human Resources Committee wasn't split along party lines. It passed 16 in favor and nine opposed.
The bill now goes onto the House Judiciary Committee for consideration.
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@me That has to be one of the most ignorant comments I have ever seen on this site. You xtians already get a say in government just like anyone else, taxed or not. How does tax exemption give you less of a say. This was never meant to be a christian nation and anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant in the extreme, or worse, a liar for jesus. Learn something about how our government works and and then come back and post. A say in the government... Just look at how that has worked out in the middle east with their theocracies. Islam the other major fairy-tale. There is a reason that atheism is snowballing... You are it.
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