SENATE BILL: Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act (On the President's Desk)

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I'm happy with this bill. As has been pointed out a very small minority of abortions occur after this stage. The exception for the life of the mother is also important. I don't really see how you can tighten up the language. You can't expect us to research every single medical complication that could occur, and it's not really necessary. Doctors write up their cases and it could be ascertained from that whether the abortion was medically necessary to save the woman's life. I guess you can mandate that there be a clinical write up of all abortions performed beyond the allowed time frame?

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I would like to offer up an amendment getting rid of the criminal penalties for Doctors violating this law. Instead I will increase their ban on practicing medicine up to 5 years from 3 years.

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Aye. This amendment on it's own will prevent more abortions than the current bill would.

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Time to vote?