Bill Text: MI HB5158 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Health; other; crisis pregnancy organizations; informed consent by pregnant women; require organizations to obtain before providing services. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-13 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [HB5158 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5158-Engrossed.html

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HB-5158, As Passed House, March 24, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 5158

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to require that crisis pregnancy organizations obtain

 

informed consent from women served by those organizations; and to

 

provide remedies and prescribe penalties.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Crisis pregnancy organization" means a nongovernmental

 

not-for-profit agency or organization that provides services and

 

counseling to women who have unplanned or unwanted pregnancies.

 

     (b) "Medically accurate" means verified or supported by

 

research conducted in compliance with scientific methods and

 

published in peer-review journals, where appropriate, and

 

recognized as accurate and objective by professional organizations

 

and agencies with relevant expertise in the field, such as the

 

American college of obstetricians and gynecologists or the American

 

gynecological and obstetrical society.

 

     Sec. 2. (1) A person employed by, a volunteer at, or in any

 

manner affiliated with a crisis pregnancy organization shall

 

provide a pregnant woman with medically accurate information.

 

     (2) If a pregnant woman inquires about pregnancy termination,

 

the location of pregnancy termination services, or birth control

 

information and the crisis pregnancy organization does not provide

 

that information, a person employed by, a volunteer at, or in any

 

manner affiliated with the crisis pregnancy organization shall

 

inform, orally or in writing, the pregnant woman that the crisis

 

pregnancy organization does not provide information that would lead

 

to the termination of a pregnancy, the location of pregnancy

 

termination services, or birth control information.

 

     (3) The crisis pregnancy organization shall distribute the

 

prenatal care and parenting pamphlet prepared by the department of

 

community health under section 9161 of the public health code, 1978

 

PA 368, MCL 333.9161.