Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb589%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=589
Timestamp: 2018-02-26 03:43:13
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16']

(By Senators Kessler (Mr. President) and Prezioso)
[Introduced February 14, 2012; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §16-2M-1, §16-2M-2, §16-2M-3, §16-2M-4, §16-2M-5, §16-2M-6, §16-2M-7, §16-2M-8, §16-2M-9 and §16-2M-10, all relating to abortions generally; protecting unborn children who are capable of experiencing pain by prohibiting abortion after twenty weeks postfertilization except when the mother has a medical emergency; providing for civil remedies and remedies at law; stating legislative findings; definitions; creating felony criminal penalties; and creating a special revenue fund known as the West Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Litigation Fund.
(a) Pain receptors (unborn child’s entire body nociceptors) are present throughout the body no later than sixteen weeks after fertilization and nerves link these receptors to the brain’s thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than twenty weeks.
(d) Subjection to painful stimuli is associated with long-term harmful neuro-developmental effects, such as altered pain sensitivity, and possibly, emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities later in life.
(a) "Attempt to perform or induce an abortion" means an act, or an omission of a statutorily required act, that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion in this state in violation of the provisions of section five, article nine, chapter sixty-two of this code.
This article is new; therefore, strike throughs and underscoring have been omitted.