Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 4, by striking lines 35-36.
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered new SECTION to read:
/ SECTION ( ). Chapter 41, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 44-41-25. (A) A physician performing or inducing an abortion:
(1) must, on the date that the abortion is to be performed or induced, have active admitting privleges at a hospital that:
(a) is located not further than thirty miles from the location at which the abortion is performed or induced; and
(b) provides obstetrical or gynecological health care services; and
(2) shall provide to the woman upon whom the abortion will be performed or induced:
(a) a telephone number by which the woman may reach the physician, or other health care personnel employed by the physician or by the facility at which the abortion will have been performed or induced with access to the woman's relevant medical records so that she may request assistance for any complications that arise from the performance or induction of the abortion or ask health-related questions related to the abortion; and
(b) the name and telephone number of the nearest hospital to the home of the woman at which an emergency arising from the abortion would be treated.
(B) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than two thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars." /
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