| Item Listing | Late-Term Abortion Regulation Proposal Under Negotiation Date: March 18, 2010
Anti-abortion legislators are pushing a proposal to allow lawsuits against doctors over legally questionable late-term abortions. Three senators and three House members met today (THUR) to negotiate a new version of legislation that rewrites state laws dealing with late-term abortions. They had been focusing on increasing requirements for doctors to report information to the state about late-term abortions. But the House's lead negotiator, Republican Representative Melvin Neufeld, of Ingalls, also proposed reviving provisions to allow a woman - or her family - to sue a doctor if there was evidence that her late-term abortion violated the law. Such provisions were included last year in a broader bill vetoed by then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who questioned whether it was constitutional.
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