PRINTER'S NO. 818
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
810
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY HANBIDGE, HOHENSTEIN, KINKEAD, KINSEY, SANCHEZ,
PROBST, KENYATTA, MADDEN, SCHLOSSBERG, ROZZI, OTTEN,
N. NELSON, KHAN AND MAYES, APRIL 4, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 4, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in abortion, further providing for
spousal notice.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3209 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 3209. Spousal notice.
[(a) Spousal notice required.--In order to further the
Commonwealth's interest in promoting the integrity of the
marital relationship and to protect a spouse's interests in
having children within marriage and in protecting the prenatal
life of that spouse's child, no physician shall perform an
abortion on a married woman, except as provided in subsections
(b) and (c), unless he or she has received a signed statement,
which need not be notarized, from the woman upon whom the
abortion is to be performed, that she has notified her spouse
that she is about to undergo an abortion. The statement shall
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