S.19.1-8: Protecting the Health of Babies and Women Act (Statute)

[Mr. Reactionary]

This is largely a response to Governor Blackface and ensures that South has appropriate laws in place to protect women and babies.

Changes include:

- A rule requiring abortion clinics to either have a doctor with hospital admitting privileges or a contract with a hospital to admit patients if need be. The distance allowed is 200 miles which is very generous considering the law so vehemently opposed in Texas required it to be within 40 miles. This is 5 X more permissive.

- Increasing the inspection fees for ensuring abortion clinics are clean and safe.

- Eliminating the exception for consensual incest. Remember, rape babies are still exempt including rape babies caused as the result of nonconsensual incest.

- Setting the federal requirements for distributing abortion bills as the standard in the south.

- Prohibiting third-trimester abortions unless 2 doctors who arent financially related to certify that the abortion is necessary to prevent serious physical harm to the patient. The law in Virginia is currently 3 doctors so this is also more permissive that some laws.

- Protecting fetuses born alive during botched abortions

- Criminalizing the nonconsensual murder of fetuses (Like shooting a pregnant woman but not killing  her but killing the fetus)

- Declares May 1, 2019, Choose Life Day

[Mr. Reactionary]

I still see no reason why babies conceived from consensual incest are deserving of less protection from generally applicable regulations. Rape and medical complications are involuntary. Lumping in consensual incest with nonconsensual issues makes no sense and the mere argument that "its always been this way" is a flawed argument for why something should be maintained.

The inspection fees are reasonable and again fund health and safety inspections.

And the admitting privileges are much more flexible than any real life restrictions so that should minimize concerns.

I hope the sponsor objects.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I would like the new title to be: "No more baby holocaust act"

[Mr. Reactionary]

Can we avoid extreme titles of bills?

Funny titles are more than half the fun of bill writing.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Eugenics scares me.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I would like the new title to be: "No more baby holocaust act"