PRINTER'S NO. 1874
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
888
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY BROOKS, SCARNATI, ALLOWAY, HUTCHINSON,
EICHELBERGER, AUMENT, FOLMER, VULAKOVICH, ARGALL,
RESCHENTHALER, BARTOLOTTA, RAFFERTY, WARD, WHITE, YAW,
STEFANO, WAGNER, MENSCH, SMUCKER AND VOGEL, JUNE 6, 2016
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 6, 2016
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in abortion, further providing for
definitions, for medical consultation and judgment, for the
offense of abortion of unborn child of 24 or more weeks
gestational age, providing for dismemberment abortion ban and
further providing for reporting.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3203 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
§ 3203. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
meanings given to them in this section:
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"Dismemberment abortion." The act of knowingly and
purposefully causing the death of an unborn child by means of
dismembering the unborn child and extracting the unborn child
one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps,
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