SB 710 Virginia Senate · 2022 Regular Session

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; created, penalty.

Summary
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty.Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibitsan abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medicaljudgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medicalcondition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or toavert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairmentof a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20weeks' gestation, the physician or authorized nurse practitioner is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would providethe unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 6felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physicianor authorized nurse practitioner who performs an abortion in violationof the Act.
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Jan 2022
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Introduced Jan 21, 2022 Last action Feb 10, 2022
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Jan 31, 2022
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Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
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Jan 21, 2022
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Jan 21, 2022
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Presented and ordered printed 22103699D
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1 primary · 7 co-sponsors

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