The abortion bill introduced by Senator Dan Patrick went to the Senate State Affairs Committee which approved the bill in a vote 7 to 2. Two senators, Leticia Van de Putte and Rodney Ellis were the no votes. The abortion bill makes it a requirement that doctors doing abortions give the women who are going to get an abortion the option of getting a sonogram. The offer must be given to them 24 hours before doing the abortion on the woman.
The bill has been changed from what Dan Patrick originally wrote it. When he introduced the bill in January, the bill mandated that a woman have the sonogram to hear and to see her unborn fetus. The bill that passed through Committee states that the woman who is going to have an abortion can refuse the sonogram. Other changes to Dan Patrick’s abortion bill was the waiting period from when a woman getting an abortion should have the sonogram from two hours as originally written to 24 hours as passed by Committee.
Other changes included excluding the sonogram offer for those women who were raped or in case of an emergency abortion. The abortion bill will now have to go through the full Senate for approval.

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