Introduced by Rep. Paul Opsommer R-Dewitt on June 22, 2011
To make it a crime to coerce or attempt to coerce a woman into having an abortion. In addition to potential prison for threats of violence or "stalking," the bill authorizes fines for acts like threatening divorce or other living arrangement changes, threatening to withhold current or promised support, etc. Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the House Families, Children, and Seniors Committee on June 22, 2011
Reported in the House on February 14, 2012
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered in the House on March 8, 2012
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Lisa Brown D-West Bloomfield on March 8, 2012
To also apply the proposed sanctions if a person coerces a woman to continue a pregnancy against her will.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Vicki Barnett D-Farmington Hills on March 8, 2012
To strip out the bill’s definition of “unborn child” as “a live human being in utero regardless of his or her gestational stage of development”.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright D-Muskegon on March 8, 2012
To tie-bar this bill a series of Democratic bills that would, among other things, impose new contraceptive, infertility treatment, and pap smear coverage insurance mandates, mandate additional sex education classes in schools, impose new "crisis pregnancy center" regulations, create a state morning-after pill PR campaign, and more. See House Bills 4805 to 4814. "Tie bar" means this bills can't become law unless those ones also become law.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Marilyn Lane D-Fraser on March 8, 2012
To strip out the bill's definition of actions that indicate "malicious intent".
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Kenneth Kurtz R-Coldwater on March 8, 2012
To move back the date the bill goes into effect until Jan. 1, 2013.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Rashida Tlaib D-Detroit on March 8, 2012
To essentially strip out the bill's provisions except for authorizing enhanced penalties for threats of violence or stalking made with the intent for coerce a woman to have an abortion.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2012