2016-02-12                     Senate Journal                      Page 1839
SB 179                                                                                                                        
SENATE BILL NO. 179 BY SENATOR COGHILL, entitled:                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
             "An Act prohibiting abortions when the                                                                             
             unborn child is viable outside the pregnant                                                                        
             woman's womb with certain exceptions;                                                                              
             providing that an infant removed from a                                                                            
             pregnant woman's womb alive after an                                                                               
             abortion may be surrendered and found to be                                                                        
             a child in need of aid; and repealing a                                                                            
             prohibition against partial-birth abortions."                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Health and Social Services                                                          
and Judiciary Committees.