Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; created, penalty. (HB1285)
Introduced By
Del. Rich Anderson (R-Woodbridge) with support from 9 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:
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Description
Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. The prohibition is predicated on the assertion that a fetus is capable of feeling pain at 20 weeks. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks gestation, the physician is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes an abortion in violation of the article as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician who performs an abortion in violation of the article. View Full Text »
Outcome
History
- 01/20/2012 Presented and ordered printed 12103711D
- 01/20/2012 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/23/2012 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1285)
- 01/24/2012 Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
- 02/08/2012 Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2013
- 02/10/2012 Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice
- 11/29/2012 Left in Courts of Justice
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