| 1 | 1 | | Session of 2025 |
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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE BILL No. 2353 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Committee on Judiciary |
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| 4 | 4 | | Requested by Jeanne Gawdun on behalf of Kansans for Life |
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| 5 | 5 | | 2-7 |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; requiring that certain written |
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| 7 | 7 | | information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare |
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| 8 | 8 | | provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose |
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| 9 | 9 | | of inducing an abortion. |
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| 10 | 10 | | Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: |
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| 11 | 11 | | Section 1. (a) Any physician or healthcare provider who prescribes, |
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| 12 | 12 | | dispenses or administers any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing |
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| 13 | 13 | | an abortion shall provide the patient receiving such medicine or drug with |
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| 14 | 14 | | a written notice that reads: |
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| 15 | 15 | | "NOTICE TO PATIENTS HAVING MEDICATION ABORTIONS: |
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| 16 | 16 | | If you decide to take any abortion-inducing medicine or drug to end |
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| 17 | 17 | | your pregnancy, the state of Kansas wants you to be aware that you and |
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| 18 | 18 | | your family may hold the manufacturer, distributor and your physician or |
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| 19 | 19 | | healthcare provider financially accountable should you die, suffer injury, |
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| 20 | 20 | | complication or any debilitating side effects, or should the physician or |
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| 21 | 21 | | healthcare provider fail to address side effects, or should the medication |
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| 22 | 22 | | fail to work such that your pregnancy continues, resulting in an incomplete |
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| 23 | 23 | | abortion or in your being required to undergo surgical intervention. |
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| 24 | 24 | | You and your family may also hold the abortion-inducing medicine or |
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| 25 | 25 | | drug provider, the physician or healthcare provider or an agent of the |
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| 26 | 26 | | abortion-inducing medicine or drug provider, physician or healthcare |
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| 27 | 27 | | provider accountable for failing to inform you of complications. |
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| 28 | 28 | | If you experience complications and are in need of emergency care or a |
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| 29 | 29 | | hospital visit, you have the right to tell the physician or healthcare provider |
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| 30 | 30 | | treating the complications that you have had an abortion-inducing |
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| 31 | 31 | | medicine or drug. Providing this information will not result in any criminal |
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| 32 | 32 | | or civil penalty and will further help save your life." |
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| 33 | 33 | | (b) As used in this section, "abortion" and "physician" mean the same |
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| 34 | 34 | | as defined in K.S.A. 65-6701, and amendments thereto. |
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| 35 | 35 | | Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its |
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| 36 | 36 | | publication in the statute book. |
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