Post by Logan on Feb 18, 2016 1:35:39 GMT -6
PHOENIX — State lawmakers launched a three-pronged attack on abortions and abortion providers Wednesday, seeking to ban fetal research, limit medication abortions and cut off the access of Planned Parenthood to payroll deductions by state employees.
The most far-reaching measure would impose a comprehensive prohibition on the use of any human fetus or embryo in any research, experimentation, study or transplanting. The only exceptions would be for diagnostic purposes to preserve the life of mother or the fetus, or for a pathological study to determine the cause of death.
SB 1474, approved on a 4-3 party-line vote by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, also makes it a crime to knowingly “sell, transfer, distribute, give away, accept, use or attempt to use any human fetus or embryo or any part, organ or fluid of the human fetus or embryo resulting from an abortion.”
Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, said the legislation is in response to the undercover videos that emerged last year that purport to show the trafficking of aborted fetuses and body parts, videos she said “shocked the soul.” Those videos appeared to show Planned Parenthood employees discussing how fetuses were aborted in ways to preserve the organs and negotiating sales prices.
Read more: tucson.com/news/local/senate-panel-approves-restrictive-abortion-bills/article_2279b9e4-0747-538b-91de-1d0a345cb757.html
The most far-reaching measure would impose a comprehensive prohibition on the use of any human fetus or embryo in any research, experimentation, study or transplanting. The only exceptions would be for diagnostic purposes to preserve the life of mother or the fetus, or for a pathological study to determine the cause of death.
SB 1474, approved on a 4-3 party-line vote by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, also makes it a crime to knowingly “sell, transfer, distribute, give away, accept, use or attempt to use any human fetus or embryo or any part, organ or fluid of the human fetus or embryo resulting from an abortion.”
Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, said the legislation is in response to the undercover videos that emerged last year that purport to show the trafficking of aborted fetuses and body parts, videos she said “shocked the soul.” Those videos appeared to show Planned Parenthood employees discussing how fetuses were aborted in ways to preserve the organs and negotiating sales prices.
Read more: tucson.com/news/local/senate-panel-approves-restrictive-abortion-bills/article_2279b9e4-0747-538b-91de-1d0a345cb757.html