Rep. Steve King Introduces Bill to Ban Aborting Babies With Heartbeats
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) introduced a bill in the House Thursday that would prohibit abortion in cases where a fetal heartbeat is detectable. The legislation also requires doctors to check for the unborn child’s heartbeat, which is detectable as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
The legislation, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017, [1] says that “any physician who knowingly performs an abortion and thereby kills a human fetus without determining, according to standard medical practice, whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat; without informing the mother of the results of that determination; or after determining, according to standard medical practice, that the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.”
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