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There were 17 Senate bills introduced in 2004, and 43 House bills. They are all listed below. You can see the complete text of each bill by clicking on its number.

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Some of Life Gauge's bill ideas can be seen here.

Two Life Gauge Constitutional Amendments were introduced in the WV Senate in 2004.

SJR 2 --- Stating that the Constitution does not grant a right to abortion.

SJR 9 --- Stating that the Constitution does not require the state to pay for an abortion.

Senate Bills:

SB 2 --- Prohibiting the transporting of minors across state lines for abortion without parental consent.

SB 48 --- Requiring consent from parent or guardian before performing an abortion on certain minors.

SB 78 --- Prohibiting the use of the body of an unborn baby for any medical or scientific experimentation.

SB 107 --- Requiring statistics on abortions.

SB 184 --- Requiring second and third trimester abortions be performed in hospitals.

SB 185 --- Prohibiting abortion for sole reason of the gender of the fetus.

SB 220 --- Allowing pharmacists to refuse to dispense abortifacients.

SB 426 --- Prohibiting cloning of humans and embryos.

SB 427 --- Relating to children's health insurance program for unborn children.

SB 489 --- Prohibiting school employees from counseling, referring, transporting or assisting any student to obtain an abortion.

SB 521 --- Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed to practice in this state from performing an abortion.

SB 628 --- No state-funded health clinic shall refer patients to abortion clinics.

SB 646 --- No hospital shall be required to provide abortion services.

SB 658 --- Ensuring medical workers have right to refuse to participate in abortion-related activities.

SB 683 --- Relating to preserving life when fetus aborted alive.

House bills still being updated . . .

Two Life Gauge Constitutional Amendments will be introduced in the WV House in 2004.

HJR 12 --- Stating that the WV Constitution does not require the state to pay for an abortion.

HJR 106 --- Stating that the WV Constitution does not require the state to allow abortion.

Life Gauge bills in the WV House:

HB 2517 --- Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided the father of the unborn child.

HB 2832 --- Prohibiting cloning of human beings and embryos.

HB 2897 --- Providing that unborn children are eligible for the children's health insurance program.

HB 2900 --- Requiring the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the state.

HB 2901 --- Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus.

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.

HB 2923 --- Allowing hospitals to refuse to perform abortions, except when the mother's life is in danger.

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.

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.

HB 2937 --- Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother.

HB 2940 --- Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents.

HB 2942 --- Requiring that any person seeking an abortion provide two forms of identification.

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.

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.

HB 3038 --- Requiring all abortions performed in second or third trimester to be performed in a hospital.

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.

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.

HB 3042 --- Prohibiting family planning centers in WV that receive state funding from discussing abortion or abortion referrals.

HB 3100 --- Prohibiting school employees in their official capacity from facilitating an abortion.

HB 4296 --- Prohibiting the payment for the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 as a benefit under any health care insurance plan offered by the state to public employees.

HB 4347 --- Establishing the crime of Partial Birth Infanticide.

HB 4422 --- Requiring physicians who perform abortions to report whether the male who impregnated the minor female receiving the abortion was eighteen years or older at the time of the impregnation.

HB 4423 --- Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure.

HB 4442 --- Providing justification to use deadly force when a pregnant woman reasonably believes that her unborn child's life is threatened.

HB 4496 --- Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed.

HB 4487 --- Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities.

HB 4506 --- Providing that neither the state nor any county may reimburse any person or entity for transporting any person to schedule, arrange or procure an abortion.

HB 4533 --- Requiring all middle schools and high schools to teach fetal development.

HB 4537 --- Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice.

HB 4577 --- Requiring physicians and medical institutions to report instances where abortions have been performed due to perceived congenital defects of fetuses.

HB 4583 --- Requiring medical facilities that provide abortions to administer anesthesia to an unborn fetus when aborted.

HB 4611 --- Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations.

HB 4636 --- Prohibiting the distribution of RU-486 by any administrator, employee or other official of the college or university.

HB 4638 --- Prohibiting abortions in cases when a fetus is capable of survival outside the mother's womb.

HB 4663 --- Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures.

HB 4664 --- Requiring any facility that performs abortions to maintain a quality assurance program.

HB 4680 --- Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility.

HB 4685 --- Requirement that certain medical facilities which provide abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of increased risk of breast cancer.

HB 4721 --- Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus.

HB 4731 --- Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without fear of disciplinary action or dismissal.

HB 4732 --- 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.

These are bills introduced in 2003 that didn't make it in 2004, for one reason or another.

HB 2946 --- Providing that during an abortion if the fetus is aborted alive that all medical means be utilized to preserve its life.

HB 2932 --- Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed to practice in this state from performing an abortion.

Life Gauge bills introduced in 2003 are listed here.

SB 566 (similar HB 4518): Unborn Victims bill (WVFL), introduced in the Senate (Judic) Feb 19, 2004. Vetoed by Gov. Wise. Introduced too late to overturn the veto.