HB1577 prevents an abortion-inducing drug from being given to a pregnant woman after eight weeks of post-fertilization age. It also requires health care providers to provide a pregnant woman with an ultrasound of the fetus, as well as information about treatment that could stop a drug-induced abortion. Further, it specifies that parental consent forms by minors seeking abortions must be notarized.
The Senate passed HB1577 on April 6, 2021, by a vote of 36 to 14. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because states should act to ban abortion and secure the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental God-given and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence, and is guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.