Tomorrow, with little to no warning the Senate Education and Health Committee will hear all the Senate bills that deal with women’s reproductive rights. There are bills that would repeal TRAP, repeal the ultrasound bill from last year and guarantee access to contraceptives. Tomorrow is APV’s lobby day and we will have representatives on hand to speak to this legislation. Come with us or join us there. The opposition’s goal is to sweep these bills away with little time for public reaction. DON’T LET THEM DO IT!!! These bills are:
Virginia General Assembly Building, 9th and Broad St.
Date of Meeting: January 17, 2013
Time and Place: 8:30 AM – Senate Room B
S.B. 783 APV SUPPORTS
Patron: McEachin
Birth control; definition. Adds a definition of birth control. “Birth control” means contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Birth control shall not be considered abortion for the purposes of Title 18.2.
S.B. 826 APV OPPOSES
Patron: Garrett
Funding for certain abortions. Repeals the section authorizing the Board of Health to fund abortions for women who meet the financial eligibility criteria of the State Plan for Medical Assistance in cases in which a physician certifies that he believes that the fetus would be born with a gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or mental deficiency.
S.B. 1080 APV SUPPORTS
Patrons: Favola, Northam
Ultrasound imaging. Provides that no law or regulation of the Commonwealth or administrative action of an agent of the Commonwealth shall require that a person receive ultrasound imaging for nonmedical reasons or ultrasound imaging that is not medically indicated as a condition of receiving a medical procedure.
S.B. 1082 APV SUPPORTS
Patrons: Northam, Favola
Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion.
S.B. 1115 APV SUPPORTS
Patron: Herring
Classification as hospitals of certain facilities in which abortions are performed. Eliminates language classifying facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed as hospitals for the purpose of compliance with regulations of the Board of Health related to construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals.
S.B. 1116 APV SUPPORTS
Patron: Herring
Design and construction standards for certain facilities. Provides that regulations of the Board of Health for the construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals shall apply to facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed only when the design or construction of such facility is initiated after July 1, 2013. This bill includes an emergency clause.
