Urgent: Senate Dems to Dismantle Pro-Life Laws Thursday!
Sadly, the new majority on the House Courts of Justice Committee that was bought and paid for by the $1 billion abortion industry, returned the favor to Planned Parenthood by voting to repeal nearly all the common-sense health and safety standards and reasonable informed consent measures for abortion. The 24 hour waiting period, a law passed nearly twenty years ago, also fell prey to an industry hungry for profit.
With less than 24-hours-notice, directors of nonprofit medical clinics from around the state rallied to explain the value of women being permitted to see their ultrasound and shared stories of the benefit to clients. HB 980 (D-Herring) now moves to the full floor of the House of Delegates.
Tomorrow, January 23, several companion pro-abortion bills will be heard and voted on by the Senate Education and Health Committee. In addition to these bills that will eliminate meaningful provisions like the 24 hour waiting period and the ultrasound requirement, tomorrow’s bills also include a repeal of parental consent in the abortion decision of young girls.
However, Senator Amanda Chase (R-Chesterfield) has introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (SB 1001) to prohibit abortions after around 20 weeks of gestation, the time at which most medical professionals agree that a baby can feel pain. In the middle of all this darkness, Senator Chase’s bill exemplifies compassion for these unborn babies.
SB 21 (D-Saslaw) would: i) repeal the requirement that a parent must consent prior to an abortion, ii) eliminate the requirement that an ultrasound be performed prior to performing an abortion, and iii) eliminate all the health and safety regulations and oversight from the state’s abortion centers that have proven so very necessary.
SB 68 (D-Locke) would eliminate the requirement that a pregnant woman seeking to an abortion must undergo a transabdominal ultrasound at least 24 hours prior to obtaining an abortion.
SB 635 (D-Surovell) would declare a fundamental right of every pregnant "person" to abortion, and states that "the Commonwealth shall not, in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information, deny or interfere with an individual's fundamental rights, including individuals under state control or supervision."
SB 733 (D-McClellan) would i) eliminate the performance of an ultrasound, the provision of specified information, and the offer to review certain printed materials as part of informed written consent; ii) allow physician's assistants, nurse practitioners or certified nurse midwives, to perform first-trimester abortions; and iii) eliminate all the health and safety regulations and oversight from the state’s abortion centers.
Please pray for these legislators as they hear all of these abortion bills.
