Skip to main content
S 2075 110th Congress Senate Health Abortion Fetus Fines (Penalties) Imaging systems in medicine Informed consent (Medical law) Law Obstetrics Women

Ultrasound Informed Consent Act

Introduced: September 20, 2007 See on congress.gov
Sign in to write a letter Sign in to watch
 Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 20, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sep 20, 2007
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ultrasound Informed Consent Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require abortion providers, before a woman gives informed consent to any part of an abortion, to perform an obstetric ultrasound on the pregnant woman, explain the results, display the ultrasound images so the woman may view them, and provide a medical description of the ultrasound images, including the dimensions of the embryo or fetus and the presence of external members and internal organs, if present and viewable. Provides for: (1) civil penalties for willful failure to comply; and (2) a medical emergency exception.

Prohibits construing this Act to require a woman to view the images or penalizing the physician or the women if she refuses to look at the images.

What's happening now September 20, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1