'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events Abortion advice bill reintroduced...
[from the Indianapolis Star...]Life begins at conception, and a fetus could feel pain during an abortion.
Indiana would require doctors to deliver that heavily debated statement, in writing, to abortion patients under proposed legislation that re-emerged Thursday at the Statehouse.
A similar bill died in the Senate last year, but its author, Sen. Patricia L. Miller, R-Indianapolis, is pushing it again this session.
The legislation, Senate Bill 146, was debated Thursday in the Senate Judiciary Committee but received no vote.
Representatives from Indiana Right to Life, the Indiana Catholic Conference and the conservative activist group Advance America backed the bill. Planned Parenthood and the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation spoke against it.
Miller said the bill is necessary to make sure women considering an abortion have all the facts they need to make an informed decision.
"This decision is a life decision, and many people who have abortions never forget they had an abortion," Miller said. "So I think we ought to help them as much as we can before as opposed to afterward."
Democrats traditionally have fought the bill, objecting to the notion of defining life at conception and presenting as fact that a fetus can feel pain during an abortion.
[continued at IndyStar.com]
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