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CA AB 1009: "The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act"

Status: Hearing cancelled at the request of the author, becoming a two-year bill.
Author: Benoit [R]

Dictates a script that every doctor must read to every patient regarding a “determination” made by the legislature that the “unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain.”

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