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Along with 34 other lawmakers, Walker introduced AB 538 in September 1997. At the time, if a health care provider withheld information about a fetal disability while abortion was still an available option, they could be liable for the child’s future medical expenses. But AB 538 would have changed that.

 

According to the bill’s text:

In other words, the bill would make it legal for pro-life doctors to withhold information from patients.

AB 538 was not passed, ultimately dying in April 1998 without receiving a floor vote.

 

However, Walker and 28 colleagues tried again in 2001, re-introducing the same legislation with AB 360. It met the same demise as AB 538, though not before being approved by the Family Law Committee.

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Withholding information is a lot like telling a lie

Last edited by jtdavis

Along with 34 other lawmakers, Walker introduced AB 538 in September 1997. At the time, if a health care provider withheld information about a fetal disability while abortion was still an available option, they could be liable for the child’s future medical expenses. But AB 538 would have changed that.

    

According to the bill’s text:

This bill creates an immunity from a wrongful birth or wrongful life action for a person who commits an act or fails to commit an act and that act or omission results in the birth of a child because a woman did not undergo an abortion that she would have undergone had the person not committed the act or not failed to commit the act.

In other words, the bill would make it legal for pro-life doctors to withhold information from patients.

Legal meaning they wouldn't be liable for the life long medical care of the child, which was ridiculous in the first place?

 

They spun that into the LIE that he said doctors should lie to prevent abortions.

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