Virginia lawmakers are set to vote on legislation this week that would require healthcare workers to provide medical care to infants born alive after a failed abortion, a kind of measure that has been proposed in a number of states.
If the bill passes the House of Delegates, it's unlikely to move forward in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
It's one of several abortion measures the Virginia legislature is considering. Republican Del. Karen Greenhalgh has proposed a bill that would impose civil and criminal penalties against any health provider that does not receive informed written consent from a woman prior to abortion. Freitas is alsoa bill that would allow pregnant women who are driving on Virginia highways to be considered as two passengers in order to travel in the high-occupancy vehicle lane.
Virginia's Senate is expected to vote on a constitutional amendment proposed by a pair of Democratic lawmakers that would, if adopted, enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution. The issue of infants born alive after a failed abortion was thrust into the national abortion debate back in 2019, when Gov. Ralph Northam faced backlash for comments he made during a discussion of abortion.
"So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated, if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then, a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother," Northam, a pediatric neurosurgeon,
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