ENROLLED
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 87
BY REPRESENTATIVES HOFFMANN, BAGLEY, COX, HORTON, JACKSON, AND
POPE
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request the Department 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.
WHEREAS, news reports published in February of 2015 indicated that Dr. George
Delgado, medical director at Culture of Life Family Health Care in San Diego, California,
had developed and successfully implemented a method of reversing what was thought to be
the inevitably fatal effect of the RU-486 abortion pill; and
WHEREAS, in March of 2015, Arizona became the first U.S. state to enact a law
requiring physicians who perform medication-induced abortions to tell women that the
abortion procedure may be reversible; and
WHEREAS, implementation of these new requirements of physicians who perform
abortions in Arizona has been delayed pending a ruling by the federal courts on the law
establishing the requirements; and
WHEREAS, it is the longstanding policy of this state to protect the right to life of
unborn children from the time of conception by prohibiting abortion impermissible only
because of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court; and
WHEREAS, while enactment of a requirement for doctors who perform medication-
induced abortions to tell women that the abortion procedure may be reversible would be
consistent with the pro-life values of this state, establishing such a requirement would be
prudent only if the scientific basis of the abortion reversal method is sound.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the Department of Health and Hospitals to study whether the effects of an
abortion induced with drugs or chemicals can be reversed.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health and Hospitals shall
convene a panel of experts in obstetrics and gynecology and pharmacology to provide
guidance on this matter and aid them in their study to include the following members:
(1) The chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport, or his designee.
(2) The chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans, or his designee.
(3) The chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tulane University
School of Medicine, or his designee.
(4) The dean of the College of Pharmacy at Xavier University of Louisiana, or his
designee.
(5) The dean of the University of Louisiana at Monroe School of Pharmacy, or his
designee.
(6) The dean of the Southern University School of Nursing, or his designee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health and Hospitals shall
develop findings and recommendations concerning whether the effects of an abortion
induced with drugs or chemicals can be reversed, and shall submit such findings and
recommendations in the form of a written report to the House Committee on Health and
Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare no later than thirty days prior to
the convening of the 2017 Regular Session of the Legislature.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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