SF0131 • 2020

Human heartbeat protection act.

AN ACT relating to public health; providing that no abortion shall be performed after the embryo or fetus has a detectable fetal heartbeat; and providing for an effective date.

Abortion Healthcare

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Senator Biteman
Last action: 2020-03-11
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2020

Plain English Breakdown

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Human Heartbeat Protection Act

The bill aims to ban abortions after a detectable fetal heartbeat and includes exceptions for when the woman's life or health is at risk.

What This Bill Does

Defines 'detectable fetal heartbeat' as cardiac activity that can be seen with standard medical equipment.
Prohibits abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, except in cases where it is necessary to save the woman's life or health.

Who It Names or Affects

Doctors and clinics that perform abortions
Women seeking abortions

Terms To Know

Detectable fetal heartbeat: The steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac, as seen with standard medical equipment.

Limits and Unknowns

This bill is marked as inactive and has not moved forward in the current session.
It does not specify how to enforce the ban on abortions after detecting a fetal heartbeat.

Bill History

2020-03-11 Senate
S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4
2020-02-25 Senate
S No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2020-02-14 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor 20-10-0-0-0
2020-02-13 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2020-02-12 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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20LSO-0155
2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0155
Introduced
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0131

Human heartbeat protection act.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Biteman, Boner, Hicks, Hutchings and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Clem, Gray, Hallinan, Jennings, Miller and Salazar

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public health; providing that no abortion shall be performed after the embryo or fetus has a detectable fetal heartbeat; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 35
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101(a)(i), by creating a new paragraph (xii) and by renumbering (xii) as (xiii) and 35
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102 are amended to read:

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101.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in the act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(i)

"Abortion" means an act, procedure, device or prescription administered to or prescribed for a pregnant woman by any person with knowledge of the pregnancy, including the pregnant woman herself, with the intent of producing the premature expulsion, removal or termination of a human embryo or fetus, except that in cases in which the
viability
detectable fetal heartbeat
of the embryo or fetus is threatened by continuation of the pregnancy, early delivery after
viability
detectable fetal heartbeat
by commonly accepted obstetrical practices shall not be construed as an abortion;

(xii)

"Detectable fetal heartbeat" means cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac that is detectable using standard medical equipment;

(xii)
(xiii)

"This act" means W.S. 35
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101 through 35
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119.

35
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102.

No abortion after heartbeat; exception.

An abortion shall not be performed after the embryo or fetus has
reached viability
a detectable fetal heartbeat
except when necessary to preserve the woman from an imminent peril that substantially endangers her life or health, according to appropriate medical judgment.

Section 2
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W.S. 35
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101(a)(vii) and 35
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103 are repealed
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Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2020
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