Assembly Bill A3607

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for a pregnant woman to be the sole possessor of rights over an embryo and fetus

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A3607 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 25 Title 1-C §§2516 & 2517, Pub Health L; amd §291, Exec L

2009-A3607 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for a pregnant woman to be the sole possessor of rights over an embryo and fetus; provides for the woman's final decision to be supreme; further provides an equal opportunity for the woman to be the sole possessor of the rights over a fetus and for such to be a civil right.

2009-A3607 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3607

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. EDDINGTON, PHEFFER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
  A.  BOYLAND,  GALEF,  LANCMAN,  MILLER, TOWNS, WRIGHT -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
  to establishing the women's reproductive domain act

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding a
new title 1-C to read as follows:
                                TITLE 1-C
                     WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE DOMAIN ACT
SECTION 2516. DEFINITIONS.
        2517. WOMEN'S RIGHTS; EMBRYO AND FETUS.
  S 2516.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  TITLE,  UNLESS  THE
CONTEXT CLEARLY REQUIRES OTHERWISE:
  1.  "EMBRYO"  MEANS  AN  ORGANISM OF THE SPECIES HOMO SAPIENS FROM THE
SINGLE CELL STAGE TO THE EIGHT WEEK DEVELOPMENT.
  2. "FETUS" MEANS AN ORGANISM OF THE SPECIES HOMO  SAPIENS  FROM  EIGHT
WEEKS  DEVELOPMENT UNTIL COMPLETE EXPULSION OR EXTRACTION FROM A WOMAN'S
BODY, OR REMOVAL FROM AN ARTIFICIAL WOMB OR  OTHER  SIMILAR  ENVIRONMENT
DESIGNED TO NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH ORGANISM.
  S 2517. WOMEN'S RIGHTS; EMBRYO AND FETUS. 1. A PREGNANT WOMAN SHALL BE
THE  SOLE  POSSESSOR  OF RIGHTS OVER AN EMBRYO AND FETUS. THE EMBRYO AND
FETUS SHALL BE CONSIDERED  INTERCONNECTED  WITH  THE  WOMAN,  COEXISTING
SIMULTANEOUSLY  WITH THE UNDERLYING MAKEUP OF A WOMAN'S PHYSIOLOGY, WITH
NO SEPARATION EXISTING BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND THE CONTENT OF HER WOMB.
  2. THE PREGNANT WOMAN'S FINAL DECISION OVER THE EMBRYO AND FETUS  WITH
REGARDS TO RIGHTS PERTAINING TO CHILDBEARING CHOICES, PREVENTATIVE MEAS-
URES  TO  DEFEND  AGAINST THE PREGNANCY, OR TO MEDICALLY ABORT THE FETUS
SHALL BE SUPREME AND NO OTHER ARBITRATOR MAY  INTERVENE  IN  THE  FORMU-
LATION OF THAT DECISION.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04658-01-9

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