HLS 16RS-1343 ENGROSSED
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 87
BY REPRESENTATIVES HOFFMANN, BAGLEY, COX, HORTON, JACKSON, AND
POPE
ABORTION: Requests a study and report by the Dept. of Health and Hospitals concerning
the possibility of reversing the effects of an abortion induced with drugs or chemicals
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To urge and request the Department of Health and Hospitals to study whether the effects of
3 an abortion induced with drugs or chemicals can be reversed, and to report findings
4 and recommendations concerning this matter to the legislative committees on health
5 and welfare.
6 WHEREAS, news reports published in February of 2015 indicated that Dr. George
7Delgado, medical director at Culture of Life Family Health Care in San Diego, California,
8had developed and successfully implemented a method of reversing what was thought to be
9the inevitably fatal effect of the RU-486 abortion pill; and
10 WHEREAS, in March of 2015, Arizona became the first U.S. state to enact a law
11requiring physicians who perform medication-induced abortions to tell women that the
12abortion procedure may be reversible; and
13 WHEREAS, implementation of these new requirements of physicians who perform
14abortions in Arizona has been delayed pending a ruling by the federal courts on the law
15establishing the requirements; and
16 WHEREAS, it is the longstanding policy of this state to protect the right to life of
17unborn children from the time of conception by prohibiting abortion impermissible only
18because of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court; and
19 WHEREAS, while enactment of a requirement for doctors who perform medication-
20induced abortions to tell women that the abortion procedure may be reversible would be
21consistent with the pro-life values of this state, establishing such a requirement would be
22prudent only if the scientific basis of the abortion reversal method is sound.
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HCR NO. 87
1 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
2urge and request the Department of Health and Hospitals to study whether the effects of an
3abortion induced with drugs or chemicals can be reversed.
4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health and Hospitals shall
5develop findings and recommendations concerning whether the effects of an abortion
6induced with drugs or chemicals can be reversed, and shall submit such findings and
7recommendations in the form of a written report to the House Committee on Health and
8Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare no later than thirty days prior to
9the convening of the 2017 Regular Session of the Legislature.
10 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
11secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 87 Engrossed 2016 Regular Session Hoffmann
Urges and requests the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to study whether the effects of an
abortion induced with drugs or chemicals can be reversed and to report findings and
recommendations concerning this matter to the legislative committees on health and welfare
no later than 30 days prior to the convening of the 2017 R.S.
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