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Bills Introduced: 2003 Below are the Life Gauge bills introduced in the 2003 legislative session -- 15 in the Senate and 28 in the House. Two Life Gauge Constitutional Amendments (resolutions), were introduced in the WV Senate. They are identical to two amendments introduced in the House. SJR 14 --- Stating that no right to abortion is granted in the WV Constitution. Smith and Weeks. Died in Judiciary. SJR 13 --- Stating that the WV Constitution does not require the state to pay for an abortion. Smith and Weeks. Died in Judiciary. Thirteen Life Gauge bills in the WV Senate: SB 499 --- Prohibiting abortion for sole reason of the gender of the fetus. Smith and Weeks. Died in HHR. SB 500 --- Requiring second and third trimester abortions be performed in hospitals. Smith and Weeks. Died in HHR. SB 513 --- Requiring consent from parent or guardian before performing abortion on certain minors; penalty. Weeks, Love, Smith, Sprouse, Dempsey, Minear, Boley and Guills. Died in HHR. SB 514 --- Prohibiting cloning of humans and embryos. McKenzie, Weeks, Smith and Sprouse. Died in Judiciary. SB 518 --- Requiring physicians to provide certain information to women having abortion. Weeks, Smith, Minear, Prezioso and Deem. Died in HHR. SB 519 --- Prohibiting person who is not state-licensed physician from performing abortions in state. Dempsey, Weeks, Smith, Prezioso and Sprouse. Died in HHR. SB 520 --- Ensuring medical workers have right to refuse to participate in abortion-related activities. Sprouse, Weeks, Prezioso, Harrison and Smith. Died in HHR. SB 521 --- Requiring statistics on state abortions. Weeks, Smith, Minear, Prezioso, Harrison and Boley. Died in HHR. SB 523 --- Relating to children's health insurance program for unborn children. McKenzie, Weeks and Smith. Died in Banking Committee. SB 524 --- Relating to preserving life when fetus aborted alive. Love, Weeks and Smith. Died in HHR. SB 525 --- Prohibiting use of unborn baby for any medical or scientific experimentation. Weeks and Smith. Died in HHR. SB 526 --- Relating to transporting minors across state lines for abortion without parental consent; penalty. Love, Dempsey, Weeks, Smith and Guills. Died in Judiciary. SB 545 --- Prohibiting certain acts by school employees to assist student in obtaining abortion. Dempsey, Love, Weeks and Smith. Died in Education Committee. Two Life Gauge Constitutional Amendments (resolutions), were introduced in the WV House. Two identical amendments were introduced in the Senate. HJR 15 --- Stating that no right to abortion is granted in the WV Constitution. Armstead, Louisos, Howard and Sobonya. Died in the Constitutional Revision Committee. HJR 12 --- Stating that the WV Constitution does not require the state to pay for an abortion. Ron Thompson. Died in the Constitutional Revision Committee. Life Gauge bills in the WV House: HB 2289 --- Prohibiting any employee of the WV Dept of Health and Human Resources from assisting an abortion in any capacity beyond what is required by law. Walters, Hall, Armstead and Overington. Died in HHR. HB 2307 --- Requiring the higher education policy commission to ensure that no person employed by any state institution of higher education, or who provides services to any state institution of higher education or to the higher education policy commission, performs or participates in or instructs students in how to perform any abortion or abortion procedure. Hall and Walters. Died in HHR. HB 2832 --- Prohibiting cloning of human beings and embryos. Armstead, Border, Smirl, Hall, Frich, Howard and Blair. Died in Judiciary. HB 2897 --- Providing that unborn children are eligible for the children's health insurance program. Ashley, Hall and Faircloth. Died in HHR. HB 2900 --- Requiring the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the state. Calvert, Wakim and Overington. To HHR then Judiciary. Died in HHR without action. cf SB 521. HB 2901 --- Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus. Carmichael, Frich and Hall. Died in HHR. HB 2911 --- Requirement that certain medical facilities which provide abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of increased risk of breast cancer. Manchin, Overington, Hall and Frich. Died in HHR. HB 2922 --- Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor. Blair, Armstead and Sumner. Died in HHR HB 2923 --- Allowing hospitals to refuse to perform abortions, except when the mother's life is in danger. Boggs and Faircloth. Died in HHR. HB 2928 --- Prohibiting the use of the body of an unborn baby to be used for any medical or scientific experimentation except in certain circumstances. Faircloth. Died in HHR. HB 2932 --- Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed to practice in this state from performing an abortion. Hall and Sobonya. Died in HHR. HB 2934 --- Providing justification to use deadly force when a pregnant woman reasonably believes that her unborn child's life is threatened. Overington and Hall. Died in HHR. HB 2936 --- Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus. Romine, Walters and Schoen. Died in HHR. HB 2937 --- Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother. Schoen, Boggs, Blair and Hall. Died in HHR. HB 2940 --- Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents. Sobonya. Died in HHR without action. HB 2942 --- Requiring that any person seeking an abortion provide two forms of identification. Sumner. Died in HHR. HB 2943 --- Providing a separate offense when a person causes death or serious bodily injury to an unborn child while attempting to cause death or serious bodily injury to the mother. Sumner, Frich, Smirl, Howard and Sobonya. Died in Judiciary. HB 2945 --- Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without fear of disciplinary action or dismissal. Trump, Schoen, Caruth and Hall. Died in HHR HB 2946 --- Providing that during an abortion if the fetus is aborted alive that all medical means be utilized to preserve its life. Wakim and Hall. Died in HHR. HB 2996 --- Providing when any part of an unborn child is outside the mother's womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state. Howard, Border and Hall. Died in HHR. HB 3020 --- Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus. Caruth. Died in HHR. HB 3038 --- Requiring all abortions performed in second or third trimester to be performed in a hospital. Howard. Died in HHR. HB 3040 --- Providing that a woman who obtains an abortion has a cause of action against any physician who causes injury to the woman or the unborn child. Louisos. Died in HHR. HB 3041 --- Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from being involved in aiding or assisting any person to obtain an abortion to a greater extent than is required by law. Walters. Died in HHR. HB 3042 --- Prohibiting family planning centers in WV that receive state funding from discussing abortion or abortion referrals. Walters. Died in HHR. HB
3100 --- Prohibiting school employees in their official capacity from
facilitating an abortion. Sobonya, Hall and Blair. Died in
HHR.
Below is the list of bill ideas given to legislators in January of
2003. The bills above were drafted using the ideas below. Some
of the numbers below did not become bills, because they weren't selected
by a legislator to be sponsored.
Numbers 1-3 were resolutions (Constitutional Amendments), two of which
were introduced, and can be seen at the top of this page.
4) No abortion shall be performed at any facility
under the jurisdiction of the WV Board of Regents 5) The abortifacient RU-486 shall not be made
available, sold, or administered on West Virginia's public college
campuses 6) The Dept of Health and Human Resources shall not
be involved in aiding or assisting any person to 7) Medical workers can refuse to be involved in any abortion-related activity without fear of punishment from employers 8) The WV Dept of Health shall enforce abortion clinic regulations, requiring private space for counseling, dressing rooms, lavatory areas, hand washing stations, private procedure rooms, adequate lighting and ventilation, examination tables and other fixed equipment, staffed and equipped recovery rooms, emergency exits for a stretcher or gurney, areas for cleaning and sterilizing instruments, storage of records and supplies, and the prominent display of state license. 9) Facilities that provide abortions must warn women seeking an abortion of their increased risk of breast cancer 10) Causing the death or injury of an unborn child as a result of an attack against a pregnant mother will result in the offender being charged with two separate offenses 11) The state will collect statistics about abortions performed in WV (number, gestational age, county of residence, age of mother, type of procedure, cost of the abortion, welfare abortions, disposal of remains, handicap status of baby and type of handicap) 12) Facilities that provide abortions will administer anesthesia to unborn babies who are aborted, when older than 7 weeks 13) Statistics shall be gathered by the state of WV, identifying how many parental consent judicial bypass options have been granted by judges in the state, which judges have granted them, the number each judge has granted, and the age of each minor granted the bypass 14) No hospital shall be required to perform any abortion, except in cases when the life of the mother is in imminent danger 15) Facilities that provide abortions will make an attempt to notify the father of the unborn baby to be aborted 16) All of WV’s public middle schools and high schools will teach fetal development and abortion techniques, including risks associated with abortion 17) All of WV’s public middle schools and high schools will display, in a prominent place, fetal models that show the stages of development of unborn babies 18) No employee of the WV school system will be
involved in counseling, referring, transporting, or 19) Abortion clinics shall report to the appropriate authorities all cases in which minor girls are impregnated by fathers over 18 years of age. Clinics must request and the patient must provide the age of the father 20) Unborn children will be covered under the CHIP program in WV 21) No person who is not a physician licensed to practice in the state of WV shall perform any abortion in WV 22) All human and embryonic cloning shall be illegal in the state of WV 23) No publicly funded educational institution in WV shall train any student or any other person to perform abortions 24) Any individual seeking an abortion in WV shall provide at least two forms of identification, one of which shall be a valid governmental form of identification 25) No person shall transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion, without the written consent of both parents 26) Once any body part of any child is outside the mother’s womb, that child shall be considered to be born, and is protected under the laws as a citizen of WV, with full rights and privileges of citizenship 27) Partial Birth Abortion, in which the baby's body is delivered, except for the head, and then killed, shall be against the law in WV 28) At least 24 hours before an abortion is to be performed, abortion clinics shall provide information to the woman seeking an abortion, that details the fetal development, the risks, and the alternatives 29) A pregnant woman is permitted to use deadly force in order to protect the life of her unborn child, even if said woman does not fear for her own life 30) No public facilities are to be used by any business or organization that performs abortions 31) No abortion shall be performed on any minor without the written consent of at least one parent or guardian. 32) The state of WV shall not subsidize organizations that promote or provide abortions 33) A woman who obtains an abortion in WV shall have the right to sue the abortion practitioner for damage to herself or to her unborn child. Damages may not be eliminated because the woman signs a consent form, nor is the offense subject to a statute of limitations. 34) Family planning centers in WV that receive state funding shall not discuss abortion or abortion referrals 35) All second or third trimesters shall be performed in a hospital. 36) The body of an unborn baby shall not be used for any medical experimentation or scientific investigation except as necessary to diagnose a disease or condition in the mother or in the unborn child. 37) In cases in which the unborn child is born alive, all available means and medical skills are to be used to promote, preserve and maintain the life of the child. 38) All abortions performed in WV must estimate the gestational age of the unborn child by using ultrasound analysis and measurement 39) When an abortion is performed on an unborn child that is or that may be viable, the abortionist shall use the method of abortion most likely to result in the survival of the unborn child 40) No person shall perform an abortion with the knowledge that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion solely on account of the sex of the fetus. 41) No person who has admitted or who has been convicted of malpractice shall perform any abortion in WV 42) The right to due process, and the right to equal protection, become effective at fertilization 43) Due to ramifications that may affect the status of unborn children under the law, the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment is hereby revoked 44) Every woman seeking an abortion shall be provided an opportunity to see an ultrasound picture of her unborn child Non-Life Gauge bills: SB 170, Informed Consent. 26 sponsors. Gov Wise signed it. WVFL featured bill. No criminal penalties. HB 2216, an Advised Consent bill. Warner. Died Judiciary Committee. HB 2167, a bill that classifies as negligent homicide the killing of a viable baby in an auto accident. Webb. Died Judiciary Committee. HB 2927, criminal offense for voluntary manslaughter of unborn child. Ennis, Warner, R.M. Thompson, Frich, R Thompson, Renner, Sumner. Died HHR. |