House Engrossed |
State of Arizona House of Representatives Forty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session 2008
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HOUSE BILL 2769 |
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AN ACT
amending section 13-3603.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to family offenses.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-3603.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
13-3603.01. Partial‑birth abortions; classification; civil action; definitions
A. A person Any physician who knowingly performs a partial‑birth abortion and who thereby kills a human fetus is guilty of a class 6 5 felony.
B. This section does not apply to a partial‑birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness or physical injury if no other medical procedure would save the mother's life, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.
C. The father of the fetus if married to the mother at the time she receives a partial‑birth abortion procedure and the maternal grandparents of the fetus if the mother is not at least eighteen years of age at the time of the partial‑birth abortion may bring a civil action to obtain appropriate relief unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal conduct or the plaintiff consented to the partial‑birth abortion. Relief pursuant to this subsection includes the following:
1. Monetary Money damages for all injuries, psychological and physical, resulting from the partial‑birth abortion, including psychological and physical damages violation of this section.
2. Statutory damages in an amount equal to three times the cost of the partial‑birth abortion.
D. This section does shall not subject a woman upon whom a partial‑birth abortion is performed to any criminal prosecution or civil liability under this section.
E. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Partial‑birth abortion" means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery does both of the following:
(a) Deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a headfirst presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the naval is outside the body of the mother for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus.
(b) Performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus.
2. "Person" includes a physician "Physician" means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathy who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17, a person or any other individual who is legally authorized by this state to perform abortions. or a person any individual who is not a physician or who is not otherwise legally authorized by this state to perform abortions but who nevertheless directly performs a partial‑birth abortion shall be subject to this section.
Sec. 2. Severability
If a provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of the act are severable.
Sec. 3. Emergency
This act is an emergency measure that is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative immediately as provided by law.