95.3 / 88.5 FM Grand Rapids and 95.3 FM Muskegon
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Fetal heartbeat abortion restriction introduced in state Senate

   New measures would ban abortions after a doctor detects a fetus’s heartbeat.

   Bills were introduced today in the state Senate.

A fetal heartbeat is usually detected at around 6 to 8 weeks. Currently, a woman can get an abortion up to around 24 weeks of gestation.

   It’s one of a handful of bills introduced so far this session aimed at limiting access to abortion. And Governor Gretchen Whitmer has said that she would veto anti-choice bills that hit her desk.

   Republican Senator Ed McBroom is a bill sponsor. He says he hopes Whitmer would change her mind.

  

   “This is another attempt to validate the value of every human life.”

   The bills would make it a felony for a physician to administer an abortion after a heartbeat has been detected. There is an exception if there is an emergency that puts the life of the mother is at risk.