Democrats in the Virginia Senate voted down the 15-week abortion ban endorsed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Thursday.
The measure didn’t even win over all the GOP lawmakers on the committee that reviewed the legislation.The vote highlighted an ongoing post-Roe debate among Republicans about how far new abortion restrictions should go and what exceptions they should include.Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant, a practicing OB-GYN from Henrico, was the sole GOP vote against the bill.
As drafted, the bill allowed abortions after the 15-week cutoff in cases of rape and incest. The bill’s patron, Sen. Steve Newman of Lynchburg, said he opposed adding additional exceptions.“I have to tell you that any woman that is seeking an abortion in the second trimester is somebody who desperately wants to be pregnant,” Dunnavant said. “And she is often faced with staggering situations and options, and I think this is a very hard place for the law.
It would have shortened the window for elective abortions from 26 to 24 weeks of pregnancy — which she described as the point of viability — with exceptions for conditions that threaten the life of the mother. Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert told Axios he hasn’t decided yet whether to docket the bill, which so far hasn’t been assigned to a committee.“I don’t know why we would churn through a lot of time on something that has an obvious outcome,” he said.
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