Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon SB1012: Relating to infants born alive.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: The Act requires that a doctor provide the same standard of care to any child born alive that requires life-saving treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care practitioner for violations. Allows the court to order that the identity or personally identifiable information of specified persons is protected from disclosure.
What the bill says
A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to infants born alive; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 677.190.
From the introduced text, February 10, 2025:
A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to infants born alive; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 677.190. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: SECTION 1. Sections 2 to 8 of this 2025 Act shall be known and may be cited as the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. SECTION 2. As used in sections 2 to 8 of this 2025 Act: (1) "Abortion" means the use or prescription of a drug, medicine, instrument or other substance or device in order or (b) Terminate a person's pregnancy with a purpose other or (B) To remove a dead unborn child. (2) "Born alive" means the complete expulsion or extraction of a child from a person at any stage of the child's development and after the expulsion or extraction, the child is breathing or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether the umbilical cord has been severed or not. Expulsion or extraction may occur by natural or induced labor, cesarean section or induced abortion. (3) "Health care practitioner" means a person who is authorized by a health professional regulatory agency in this state to engage in the practice of a health care discipline. SECTION 3. In determining the meaning of any statute, rule, regulation or interpretation thereof by an agency of …
Sponsors
- Lona Thatcher (R, 11) · primary sponsor
- Bruce Starr (R, 12)
- Noah Robinson (R, 2)
- David Smith (R, 1)
- Mike McLane (R, 30)
Latest actions
- : In committee upon adjournment.
- : Referred to Health Care.
- : Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
Subjects: Health Care
Common questions
- What is SB1012?
- SB1012 is a bill in the Oregon Legislature (2025 Legislative Measures): Relating to infants born alive.
- What does SB1012 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to infants born alive; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 677.190.
- What is the status of SB1012?
- Failed as of June 27, 2025. Latest action: In committee upon adjournment. (June 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB1012?
- Lona Thatcher (R, 11), with 4 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SB1012?
- On the Oregon Legislature website: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/1012
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