H 3454 Session 108 (1989-1990)
H 3454 General Bill, By Fair, D.M. Beasley, Hayes, T.E. Huff, J.C. Johnson,
J.E. Lockemy, W.S. McCain, Quinn and D.A. Wright
A Bill to make it unlawful to abort a viable fetus except to preserve the life
or health of the mother, to require a physician, before performing an abortion
on a woman he has reason to believe is carrying a fetus of twenty or more
weeks gestational age to first determine if the fetus is viable and to
establish the standard of care in making the determination, to require a
physician to so certify and certify the medical indications for the abortion,
to require a physician performing an abortion of a viable fetus to use the
method most likely to preserve the life and health of the fetus, to require
the physician intentionally performing an abortion of a viable fetus to
certify in writing the available abortion methods considered and the reasons
for choosing the method employed, to require the presence of a second
physician during such abortions, to provide exceptions for the necessity of
the second physician, to prescribe the standard of care, to prescribe the
status of a child born alive as a result of an abortion, to provide a penalty
for violations; and to amend Section 16-1-10, as amended, Code of Laws of
South Carolina, 1976, listing offenses classified as felonies, so as to add to
the list the offense established by this Act.
02/08/89 House Introduced and read first time HJ-11
02/08/89 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-12
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