Article: Abortion opponents gain two more victories; House committee approves informed consent, ban on late-term procedure.(NEWS)

Two more bills favored by abortion opposition forces passed a House committee Tuesday, bringing the total to three in two days.

Decisive passage of a patient informed-consent measure and a ban on a type of late-term abortions indicate that abortion opponents, aided by a new Republican majority in the House, have muscled their agenda squarely in front of the Legislature.

Tuesday night's three-hour hearing before the Health and Human Services Policy Committee followed passage Monday of a bill requiring more data on abortions by minors. They were the first hearings in several years on abortion-related bills. In the House, which until this year had been led ...

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