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Apr 30, 2008 12:53 pm US/Eastern

Abortion Ultrasound Bill Fails In Senate

The Vote Was 20-20

Without A Majority, The Measure Died

TALLAHASSEE (AP) ― A measure that would have required all women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound and be given the opportunity to view the image failed narrowly in the state Senate on Wednesday.

The vote was 20-20. Without a majority, the measure died.

State law already requires an ultrasound before a woman can have an abortion in the second or third trimester. The bill would have extended that to the first trimester. It also would have added the requirement that the doctor give the woman the opportunity to look at the sonogram, although she could have declined.

The vote followed a tense and emotional debate over whether the idea simply gave women more information to better enable them to make an informed decision or was just an impediment to abortions.

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