The state took a major step toward enacting new abortion restrictions on Friday after a lawmaker cut short an attempt to stage a "citizen filibuster." Hundreds of people, most of them women opposed to the legislation, were waiting to speak when Representative Byron Cook, the Republican chairman of the State Affairs Committee, said the witnesses had become repetitive and he would allow only two more hours of testimony. Normally each witness may testify for three minutes. Mr. Cook's committee approved all of the measures on a party-line vote without comment. The Republican-backed measures would ban abortions after 20 weeks; the current limit is 24 weeks. They would also require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, and only allow abortions in surgical facilities. Many private hospitals will not grant privileges to a doctor who performs abortions and most abortion clinics do not qualify as ambulatory surgical centers, a standard usually reserved for procedures that involve extensive surgery or general anesthesia. Supporters say the bills would make abortions safer, but abortion-rights groups say they would lead to the shuttering of 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics.
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