A09198 Enacts the "life appropriation act" prohibiting state funding for abortions and related costs; regulates abortions and prohibits dismemberment abortions.

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Prohibits state appropriations and grants for direct or indirect costs of performing, inducing, referring or counseling for abortions (including shared overhead, salaries, rent), and bars grants to entities or affiliates that perform or refer for convenience abortions, while exempting Medicaid as-f-

an agency or instrumentality of the state shall not award a grant to pay the direct or indirect costs of performing, inducing, referring or counseling in favor of abortions, including without limitation: a. administrative costs and expenses;

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Bans abortions (with narrow exceptions only for life or major bodily function impairment) at 20 weeks or later, requires hospital setting, two-physician concurrence, and live-delivery attempt with a second physician present to care for any surviving child; also bans dismemberment abortions at all (

no abortion shall be performed upon a woman when the gestational age of the unborn child is twenty or more weeks unless each of the following conditions is met: (a) The physician performing the abortion certifies in writing that, based upon their medical examination of the pregnant woman and their medical judgment, the abortion is necessary to prevent either the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman.

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Imposes detailed regulatory requirements on abortion providers including mandatory in-person pre-abortion medical consultation, specific certification and concurrence procedures, hospital-only performance for later abortions, second-physician attendance for live delivery, detailed reporting of each

Except in a medical emergency where there is insufficient time before the abortion is performed, the woman upon whom the abortion is to be performed shall have a private, in-person medical consultation either with the physician who is to perform the abortion or with the referring physician.

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Defines 'convenience abortion' to exclude only those to save the mother's life, save/preserve the unborn child's life/health, remove a dead unborn child or ectopic pregnancy, or cases of rape/incest; later-gestation and dismemberment bans allow only narrow life-or-major-bodily-function exceptions (

An act is not a convenience abortion if the act is performed with the intent to: a. save the life of the mother, b. save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child, c. remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion, d. remove an ectopic pregnancy, or e. abort and remove an unborn child that is the result of rape or incest.

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Repeals the existing Title 5-A of Public Health Law Article 41 and replaces it with new restrictive regulations; adds detailed abortion reporting requirements to the department (without patient names) including physician identities, gestational age, procedure type, fetal weight, medical basis, and

Title 5-A of article 41 of the public health law is REPEALED and a new title 5-A is added to read as follows: TITLE V-A REGULATION OF ABORTIONS

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