Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

The Proposed Statute

Be
it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri:

Title XXXVI of
the Revised Statutes of Missouri is amended to add a new
Chapter which reads as follows:

SECTION 1.  Short title. 
This act shall be cited as “Prevention
of Coerced and Unsafe Abortions Act.”

SECTION 2.  Definitions. 
The following words and phrases shall have the meanings
ascribed in this chapter unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise:

(a) "Abortion" means the
use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug or
any other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy
of a woman with an intention other than to increase the
probability of a live birth or to deliver a child that
has already died.

(b) "Abortion provider"
means any physician or entity that performs or provides
abortions or any person or entity that refers for
abortions as a normal part of their business more than
five (5) times per year.

(c) “Complication
associated with abortion” means any adverse physical,
emotional or psychological reaction that is
statistically associated with abortion as defined by
P<0.05,  meaning there is less than a 5 percent chance
that the results were due to sampling error.

(d) "Medical emergency"
means that condition which, on the basis of the
physician's reasonable clinical judgment, so complicates
the medical condition of the pregnant woman as to
necessitate an immediate abortion to avert the death of
the mother or for which a 48‑hour delay will
create grave peril of immediate and irreversible loss of
a major bodily function.

(e) “Negligible risks”
means risks that a reasonable patient would consider
to be immaterial to a decision to undergo an
elective procedure.

(f) “Risk factor” means
any factor, including any physical, psychological,
emotional, demographic, or situational factor that is
statistically associated at a level of P<0.05 with one
or more complications associated with abortion wherein
the statistically significant association was published
no less than twelve months prior to the abortion in any
peer reviewed journals indexed by the National Library
of Medicine's search services, PubMed or MedLine, or in
any journal included in the Thomson Scientific Master
Journal List.

(g) "Self‑induced
abortion" means any abortion or menstrual extraction
attempted or completed by a woman on her own body.

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