Quote (GSG @ Jan 30 2019 05:00pm)
Yeah better go watch some viral videos and assume the authenticity of the presenter as legitimate then base my opinion on someone else's opinion right ???
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191%20sum%20HB2491They are trying to reduce the restrictions on third trimester abortions, reduce the requirement of physician approval from 3 to 1 and remove the mandatory ultra-sound prior to consent. The physician and mother still have to believe that childbirth will cause significant mental or physical (death) harm to the mother. It's pretty well documented that ultra sounds prior to consent to abortion was often used to exploit the womens feelings about aborting something living inside of her.
It's evident you never read the bill because you cant even explain why you are so upset with the changes. Simply saying someone is wrong doesn't make it true.
New York =/= Virginia good work here
From another thread :
-Eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital.
-Eliminates any and all requirements like ultrasounds required for a women's informed consent other than her own written consent.
-Eliminates the need for three physicians to certify the necessity of a third trimester abortion, needing only one physician's approval.
-Eliminates the requirement that a third trimester abortion be medically necessary to protect the woman from substantial or irrepairable physical harm, replacing it with only a condition of the woman facing impaired physical or mental health.
-Eliminates the requirement that any facility that performs 5 or more third-trimester abortions per month be classified as a hospital and subject to a hospital's minimum standards
As a result of these changes, it would create the unique case that in Virginia, a woman would be allowed to have an abortion up to the moment of birth, while she's giving labor, based solely on her claim of facing non-seriously impaired mental health. IE, she could simply say she's not emotionally ready to raise the child, and as long as she can get a single physician to agree and perform the abortion, she can legally have the fetus aborted seconds prior to giving birth. Yet if she gives birth and has the baby killed a few seconds later, it becomes classified as first degree murder of a person under the age of 14 by a person over the age of 21, for hire, two aggravating factors in Virginia state law that make it eligible for punishment by the death penalty or life imprisonment without possibility of parole.