Key Votes
HB 4799 - Prohibits Coercing a Woman into Having an Abortion - Key Vote
Michigan Key Votes
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Family
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Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - March 14, 2012
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (72-37) - March 13, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Prohibits Coercing a Woman into Having an Abortion
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill which prohibits individuals from coercing or attempting to coerce a pregnant woman into having an abortion, effective January 1, 2013.
Highlights:
- Prohibits any individual who knows a woman is pregnant from committing, attempting to commit, or “maliciously threatening” to commit physical violence against the pregnant woman.
- Defines “maliciously threaten” as 2 or more statements or a course of conduct that would cause a "reasonable" person to believe that the individual is likely to act in accordance with such statements or conduct.
- Prohibits any individual, upon learning that the pregnant woman does not want to have an abortion, from performing any of the following:
- Discontinuing or threatening to discontinue support that the individual has a legal responsibility to provide or reducing that support to a level below his or her legal responsibility;
- Withdrawing or threatening to withdraw from a contract or other agreement to which the pregnant woman is a party or beneficiary; or
- Discharging or threatening to discharge the pregnant woman from employment.
- Specifies that a violation of this bill shall be punishable as follows:
- For physical violence, a punishment in accordance with the crime;
- For threats to discontinue support, withdraw from a contract, or discharge the pregnant woman from employment, a fine of no more than $5,000; or
- For an offender who is the father of the fetus, or if the pregnant woman is under 18 years of age at the time of the violation, a fine of no more than $10,000.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - June 22, 2011
Title: Prohibits Coercing a Woman into Having an Abortion
Sponsors
- Paul E. Opsommer (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Kevin M. Cotter (MI - R)
- Kevin Daley (MI - R)
- Bob Genetski (MI - R)
- Judson 'Jud' Gilbert II (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Ken Goike (MI - R)
- Gail Haines (MI - R)
- Joseph Haveman (MI - R)
- Kurt Heise (MI - R)
- Thomas B. 'Tom' Hooker (MI - R)
- Kenneth B. 'Ken' Horn (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Bradford C. 'Brad' Jacobsen (MI - R)
- Nancy E. Jenkins (MI - R)
- Joel Johnson (MI - R)
- Eileen T. Kowall (MI - R)
- Kenneth Kurtz (MI - R)
- Andrea LaFontaine (MI - R)
- Richard LeBlanc (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Matt Lori (MI - R)
- Lisa Posthumus Lyons (MI - R)
- Peter F. MacGregor (MI - R)
- Greg MacMaster (MI - R)
- Tom McMillin (MI - R)
- Margaret E. O'Brien (MI - R)
- Earl J. Poleski (MI - R)
- Philip N. Potvin (MI - R)
- Amanda Price (MI - R)
- Bruce R. Rendon (MI - R)
- Mike Shirkey (MI - R)
- Pat R. Somerville (MI - R)
- John J. Walsh (MI - R)
- Ken J. Yonker (MI - R)
- Dale W. Zorn (MI - R)
