Bill Text: OR HCR6 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reaffirming woman's right to make reproductive decisions.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HCR6 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HCR6-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                  House Concurrent Resolution 6

Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession
  filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Judiciary)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Reaffirms woman's right to make reproductive decisions.

                      CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
  Whereas the United States was founded on the principles of
individual liberty, personal privacy and equality, and these
principles are meant to ensure that each individual is free to
make the most intimate decisions free from government
interference and discrimination; and
  Whereas one of the most intimate decisions a woman ever faces
is the decision to choose adoption, end a pregnancy or raise a
child, and, as such, medical decisions must be left up to a
woman, her family and her faith, with the counsel of her doctor
or health care provider; and
  Whereas according to the World Health Organization, 47,000
women die each year worldwide due to complications from unsafe
abortions, and approximately 13 percent of all maternal deaths
worldwide are due to unsafe abortions; and
  Whereas prior to the Roe v. Wade decision, an estimated 1.2
million women per year in the United States were forced to resort
to illegal abortions despite the known hazards that included
unsanitary conditions, incompetent treatment, infection,
hemorrhage, disfiguration and death; and
  Whereas according to one estimate, prior to 1973, as many as
5,000 women died each year in the United States as a result of
having an illegal abortion; and
  Whereas it is vital to women's health and well-being that
abortion remain a safe and legal medical procedure for a woman to
consider, if and when she needs it; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-seventh Legislative
Assembly, assert that a woman's personal medical decision-making
about pregnancy is a fundamental right; and be it further
  Resolved, That decisions about whether to choose adoption, end
a pregnancy or parent a child must be left to a woman, her family
and her faith, in consultation with her doctor or health care
provider; and be it further
  Resolved, That abortion should remain a safe and legal medical
procedure without unnecessary governmental interference; and be
it further
  Resolved, That every woman deserves professional, nonjudgmental
and fully confidential health care, regardless of where she
lives, as well as access to all methods of birth control approved
by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
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