Forty-ninth Legislature
First Regular Session
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1175
(Reference to Senate
engrossed bill)
Strike everything after the enacting
clause and insert:
"Section 1. Title 36, chapter 20, article
1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-2153, to read:
36-2153. Performance of an abortion by
individual who is not a physician; prohibition
A. An
individual who is not a physician shall not perform a surgical abortion.
B. For the
purposes of this section:
1. "physician"
means a person who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17.
2. "surgical
abortion" means the use of a surgical instrument or a machine to terminate
the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the
termination by those means will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of
the unborn child. Surgical abortion does not include the use of any means to
increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the
child after a live birth, to terminate an ectopic pregnancy or to remove a dead
fetus. Surgical abortion does not include patient care incidental to
the procedure."
Amend title to conform
