A05161 Provides pregnant persons with alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when electing to have an abortion by health care practitioners offering sedated birth and perinatal hospice procedures.

↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 80%

Requires practitioners to inform patients considering abortion after 24 weeks (when needed to protect life or health) about sedated birth as an alternative, and to inform all patients considering abortion about perinatal hospice as an alternative, so more patients receive information on options that

When a health care practitioner is caring for a patient who is considering abortion and such abortion would be performed more than twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy because such abortion is necessary to protect such patient's life or health, such health care practitioner shall inform such patient before any procedure is commenced that surgical abortion is not a reversible procedure, and that such patient shall have the option to choose sedated birth as an alternative to abortion.

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↓Restricts abortion access model confidence 70%

Mandates that health care practitioners inform patients considering abortion (verbally and in writing, with documentation) about sedated birth and perinatal hospice alternatives before any procedure, adding regulatory requirements on abortion-related counseling.

A health care practitioner shall inform patients considering an abortion procedure about the alternatives to abortions described in this section both verbally and in writing. Health care practitioners shall document in a patient's permanent medical record the time and date that information pertaining to such alternatives was provided to the patient.

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