HB2568 HFA Skinner, Fleischauer, Pushkin, Longstreth, Fluharty, L. Phillips, Perdue and Caputo 2-10

            Delegates Skinner, Fleischauer, Pushkin, Longstreth, Fluharty, L. Phillips, Perdue and Caputo move to amend the bill on page 10, section 4, line 29, following the period, by inserting the following subsection (c) to read as follows:

            “(c) (1) Whenever an abortion is being sought to terminate a pregnancy resulting from an alleged act of rape or incest, prior to the abortion, all of the following requirements shall be met:

            (A) The rape or incest victim shall report the rape to a law enforcement official unless the treating physician certifies in writing that in the physician's professional opinion, the victim was too physically or psychologically incapacitated to report the rape;

            (B) The victim certifies that the pregnancy is the result of rape, which certificate shall be witnessed by the treating physician; and

            (C) the fetus is not yet reached the stage of viability outside of the womb.

            (2) Whenever an abortion is being sought to terminate a pregnancy resulting from an alleged act of incest, prior to the abortion all of the following requirements shall be met:

            (A) The victim of incest shall report the act of incest to a law enforcement official unless the treating physician certifies in writing that in the physician's professional opinion the victim was too physically or psychologically incapacitated to report the incest;

            (B) The victim certifies that the pregnancy is the result of incest, which certificate shall be witnessed by the treating physician;

and

            (C) the fetus is not yet reached the stage of viability outside of the womb.”