Under SB 3, an individual is prohibited from performing or inducing an abortion upon another person when the gestational age of the unborn child is 20 weeks. Under the current law, the gestational age limit is 24 weeks.
A new Section 3211.1 prohibits dismemberment abortions when the gestational age of the unborn child is less than 20 weeks. A violation of this section is a felony of the third degree.
Dismemberment abortion means “the act of knowingly and purposefully causing the death of an unborn child by means of dismembering and extracting the baby one piece at a time from the uterus using instruments such as clamps, forceps, tongs, scissors, and others.
The bill only allows this type of procedure if two physicians agree that it is necessary to prevent either the death of the pregnant women or the substantial/irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
