The bill also would add viable fetuses to the state's Child in Need of Aid laws and allow them to be surrendered to the doctor or hospital employee where the abortion is performed if the woman is unwilling or unable to care for the child. Republican Senate Majority Leader John Coghill said the purpose of his bill was to introduce new restrictions and principles to late-term abortions. Erik Houser, a spokesman for Planned Parenthood's advocacy arm in Alaska, wrote in an email that the organization is reviewing the full effects of the legislation but is "understandably concerned about any abortion-related bill from Senator John Coghill, a politician with a long history of trying to come between a woman and her doctor on important medical decisions."