AB 777

This bill repeals various abortion-related laws, including all of the following:

1. The bill eliminates certain specific procedural requirements that must be

met under current law before the performance of an abortion. Current law requires

that a person upon whom an abortion is to be performed or induced must give

voluntary and informed written consent to an abortion. For the purposes of an

individual's consent to an abortion, except in a medical emergency, consent is

considered informed only if, before the abortion is performed or induced at a time

specified in current law, the physician or an assistant has, in person, orally provided

the person upon whom an abortion is to be performed with certain information and

given that person certain written materials.

2. The bill eliminates the prohibition on giving a woman an abortion-inducing

drug unless the physician who provides the drug for the woman performs a physical

exam on the woman and is physically present in the room when the drug is given to

the woman.

3. The bill eliminates the prohibition on coverage of abortions by qualified

health plans offered through a health benefit exchange in this state.

4. The bill eliminates the current law requirement for minors to obtain parental

consent or a waiver of parental consent in order to proceed with an abortion.

5. The bill repeals the statute that prohibits the performance of abortions by

a physician who does not have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of

the location where the abortion is to be performed. This statute was previously held

to be unenforceable by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in

Planned

Parenthood of Wis., Inc. v. Schimel

, 806 F.3d 908 (7th Cir. 2015), which affirmed a

permanent injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of

Wisconsin.

6. The bill repeals the criminal penalty on a person who is not a physician and

who intentionally performs an abortion. The bill also repeals the prohibition on

performing an abortion after the fetus or unborn child has reached viability, as well

as the prohibition on abortion if the probable postfertilization age of the fetus or

unborn child is 20 or more weeks.