Assembly Bill A8868

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing women alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when electing to have an abortion

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A8868 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2599-bb, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3752
2023-2024: A3479

2019-A8868 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides women alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when electing to have an abortion by health care practitioners offering sedated birth and perinatal hospice procedures.

2019-A8868 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8868
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  providing  women
   alternative  birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when elect-
   ing to have an abortion
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2599-bb of the public health law
 is renumbered subdivision 7 and five new subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5  and  6
 are added to read as follows:
   2.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE FOLLOW-
 ING DEFINITIONS:
   (A) "SEDATED BIRTH" SHALL MEAN A PROCEDURE TO TAKE PLACE PAST  TWENTY-
 FOUR  WEEKS  OF  PREGNANCY  AS  AN ALTERNATIVE TO ABORTION WHERE A WOMAN
 RECEIVES GENERAL ANESTHESIA AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS  TO  INDUCE  LABOR
 AND  DELIVERY,  WHILE  MEDICAL  INTERVENTIONS  ARE NOT TAKEN TO STOP THE
 HEARTBEAT OR OTHERWISE END THE LIFE OF THE FETUS. THE FETUS IS THEN BORN
 ALIVE AND INTACT.
   (B) "PERINATAL HOSPICE" SHALL MEAN SPECIALIZED  PERINATAL  CARE  WHICH
 CAN  TAKE  PLACE  AT  ANY  POINT DURING A PREGNANCY AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO
 SURGICAL ABORTION  CENTERED  ON  ENSURING  A  PEACEFUL,  NONVIOLENT  AND
 NATURAL END TO A BABY'S LIFE THAT INCLUDES EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED TO
 THE  PARENTS,  THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HEALTH-
 CARE DECISION MAKING PROCESS AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR  PARENTS  TO  CELE-
 BRATE THEIR BABY'S LIFE, WHETHER SUCH BABY'S LIFE LASTS FOR AN AMOUNT OF
 TIME AFTER BIRTH OR ENDS NATURALLY BEFORE BIRTH.
   3.  WHEN  A  HEALTH  CARE  PRACTITIONER IS CARING FOR A PATIENT WHO IS
 CONSIDERING ABORTION AND SUCH ABORTION  WOULD  BE  PERFORMED  MORE  THAN
 TWENTY-FOUR  WEEKS  FROM  THE  COMMENCEMENT  OF  PREGNANCY  BECAUSE SUCH
 ABORTION IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT SUCH PATIENT'S  LIFE  OR  HEALTH,  SUCH
 HEALTH  CARE PRACTITIONER SHALL INFORM SUCH PATIENT BEFORE ANY PROCEDURE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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