Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB2648: Abortion or miscarriage; intent to produce or cause.
Chief Patron
Del.
Chris Jones (R-76)
Chris Jones
(R-76)
Suffolk, VA
Served: 1998–
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty. Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to or causes to be taken by a pregnant female any drug or other thing or uses means, with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage and thereby destroys such child or produces such abortion or miscarriage is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Current law does not with specificity include the pregnant female as a possible perpetrator.
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Poll Results
14 votes
Comments
Criminalizing miscarriage is just plain nuts. What exactly is "cause" your own miscarriage. Chris Jones should be defeated in Nov. 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Byt this legislation, he would criminalize, or render as suspects, all women who miscarry.
And this, of course, ignores the point that criminalizing women for terminating their pregnacies should not be a felonious matter. Keep the police out of women's reproduction. And keep Chris Jones away from the women of Virginia.
Correction of the above comment. There should be no criminal penalities, or criminalization, period.
This bill is cruel. It is estimated that one pregnancy in five ends in miscarriage, whether the pregnancy is wanted or not. Delegate Jones needs to learn biology and keep his beliefs to himself.
Is wise government oxymoronic on its face? From the likes of our GA productions such as this one, I'd say yes.