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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES             H.R. NO.              
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     HOUSE  RESOLUTION

RELATING TO HEALTH. 


 1       WHEREAS, the Legislature has been faced with the issue of
 2   abortion, and the sub-issue of partial birth abortion, for the
 3   past several sessions; and
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 5       WHEREAS, the Legislature is consistently faced with making
 6   decisions on the issue of abortion and partial birth abortion;
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 9       WHEREAS, timely and accurate information on abortion and
10   partial birth abortion, also known as dilation and extraction
11   or D & X, is needed by this Legislature; now, therefore,
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13       BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
14   Twentieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session
15   of 2000, that this body requests the Department of Health to
16   provide the Legislature with the number of abortions performed
17   in the third trimester of pregnancy and the number of partial
18   birth abortions performed in Hawaii each year from 1990 to the
19   present; and
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21       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that if such information does not
22   exist or is not reliable, the Department of Health should
23   establish a reliable program to obtain such data.
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