Reference is to Printer's Date 5/19/15-S.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking Section 44-41-430(5) and inserting:
/ (5) 'Medical emergency' means a condition that, in reasonable medical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of the pregnant woman that it necessitates the immediate abortion of her pregnancy without first determining post fertilization age to avert her death or for which the delay necessary to determine post fertilization age will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. /
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, by striking Section 44-41-450(B) and inserting:
/ (B) When an abortion upon a woman whose unborn child has been determined to have a probable post fertilization age of twenty or more weeks is not prohibited by subsection (A), the physician shall terminate the pregnancy in the manner which, in reasonable medical judgment, provides the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive, unless, in reasonable medical judgment, termination of the pregnancy in that manner would pose a greater risk either of the death of the pregnant woman or of the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the woman than would other available methods. /
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, by striking Section 44-41-460(A)(5) and (A)(6) and inserting:
/ (5) If the probable
post-fertilization age was determined to be twenty or more
weeks, the basis of the determination that the pregnant woman
had a condition which so complicated her medical condition as to
necessitate the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or
to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical
impairment of a major bodily function.
(6)
If the probable post-fertilization age was determined to
be twenty or more weeks, whether or not the method of abortion
used was one that, in reasonable medical judgment, provided the
best opportunity for the unborn child to survive and, if such a
method was not used, the basis of the determination that
termination of the pregnancy in that manner would pose a greater
risk either of the death of the pregnant woman or of the
substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major
bodily function of the woman than would other available methods.
/
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.