Women who want to terminate a pregnancy are going to be asked some questions first.

On a largely party-line vote the state Senate voted 17-13 Wednesday to approve a list of questions about the reasons for deciding to terminate a pregnancy.

Saying they're protecting women's health, the state House voted Monday along party lines to require hospitals and clinics to ask patients the reason they are seeking an abortion.

A controversial reporting requirement stripped from an abortion bill is back, and this time lawmakers also want to require doctors to save a sample of the fetal tissue if the pregnancy was the result of sexual assault.

A House committee struck a controversial provision from a bill that expands the amount of information abortion providers must report to the state.

The state of Arizona has already laid out a better path to decreasing the abortion rate – expansion of health care, and making excellent contraceptives available to more women. That is the patient-centered, evidence-based model we endorse, and one the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would like to see duplicated in every state.

SB1394 would require doctors to run down a checklist of possible reasons the woman wants an abortion, including economic issues, rape, incest, relationship issues and even that a woman doesn’t want children at this time.

On a party-line vote, members of the Health and Human Services Committee approved adding a series of new requirements on abortion providers and those who already are required to inform women about the nature of the procedure.

Doctors who provide abortions would have to ask a woman why she wants the procedure under a legislative proposal to boost reporting requirements.

The state of Arizona has been ordered to pay roughly $2.2 million in legal fees in the past eight years to organizations that challenge restrictive abortion laws adopted by the Republican-controlled state Legislature.