Bill Text: VA HB1037 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Abortions; performance, eliminates certain requirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice [HB1037 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB1037-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §18.2-74 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§18.2-74. When abortion or termination of pregnancy lawful after second trimester of pregnancy.
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of §18.2-71 and in addition to the provisions of §§18.2-72 and 18.2-73, it shall be lawful for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy or aid or assist in the termination of a human pregnancy by performing an abortion or causing a miscarriage on any woman in a stage of pregnancy subsequent to the second trimester provided the following conditions are met:
(a) 1. Said
operation is performed in a hospital licensed by the Virginia State Department
of Health or operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental
Services.
(b) 2. The
physician and two consulting physicians certify certifies and so enter enters in the hospital record
of the woman, that in
their the physician's
medical opinion, based upon their the physician's best clinical
judgment, the continuation of the pregnancy is likely to result in the death of
the woman or substantially and irremediably impair the mental or physical
health of the woman.
(c) 3. Measures
for life support for the product of such abortion or miscarriage must
shall be available and utilized if there is any clearly
visible evidence of viability.
