Oppose Abortion Shield Laws
Tomorrow the full House will vote on several significant bills that seek to shield abortion providers who violate other state’s laws and create a presumed right to abortion causing drugs and devices without any religious protections for doctors or prescribers.
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HB 78 (D-Watts) seek to prohibit any search warrants from being issued that could obtain information about “menstrual health data” in any form. These bills are a sly way of trying to prevent detection of illegal abortions, since information about pregnancy is often determined by reference to a woman’s last menstrual cycle. As a constitutional matter, search warrants can only be issued upon a showing of probable cause that an actual crime likely occurred. So, in the instances of fetal homicide, forced abortions through sex trafficking, or minor abortions without parental knowledge or consent, this bill would prevent collection of evidence to prosecute such crimes.
HB 1539 (D-Simon) would prohibit the Governor from extraditing a person in Virginia who has committed abortion-related crimes in other states. This is designed to create a safe-haven for people who are mailing unsafe abortion-inducing drugs from Virginia into other states where such chemical abortions are illegal.
HB 519 (D-Mundon King) would prohibit the Board of Medicine from disciplining doctors licensed in Virginia for performing abortions (and prescribing/distributing abortion pills) in other states where abortion is illegal. This bill would disallow the board from disciplining abortion provides for the unethical violation of another state’s abortion laws.
HB 609 (D-Price) creates a presumed right to contraceptive drugs and devices that can result in an abortion, without any religious protections for doctors or prescribers.
