{"id":1321228,"date":"2022-02-21T07:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1321228"},"modified":"2022-02-21T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:54:12","slug":"virginia-democrats-vote-for-allowing-babies-who-survive-abortions-to-die-without-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-democrats-vote-for-allowing-babies-who-survive-abortions-to-die-without-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Democrats Vote For Allowing Babies Who Survive Abortions To Die Without Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-democrats-vote-for-allowing-babies-who-survive-abortions-to-die-without-care%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1321228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4354264425_15ab47f5cf_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Virginia rounds the corner in its first session of 2022, legislation passed in the state\u2019s pro-life House faces major challenges in the Senate. Although Virginia ushered in a pro-life governor this January, the Senate is still controlled by pro-abortion Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday\u2019s \u201ccrossover\u201d day marked a turning point in the 60-day session, as bills passed in the House and Senate moved down the hall for further votes. The Republican-controlled Virginia House passed <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB304\">HB 304<\/a>, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, sponsored by Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper. The bill requires an abortionist to provide life-saving treatment for a child born alive after a failed abortion. It passed 52-48 along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Del. Dave LaRock, R-Loudoun, filed a mirror bill, HB 1349, and said he expects Senate Democrats to recognize the necessity of the basic human rights measure following public fallout from former Gov. Ralph Northam\u2019s radical abortion interview in 2019. Northam spoke in favor of infant death without any attempt at medical intervention if an abortion failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat comment by then-governor Northam shocked the world by revealing that Northam was among the most radically pro-abortion advocates who would allow a living, breathing baby to be denied proper care, treated as medical waste, and left to die,\u201d LaRock said. \u201cI am hopeful there will be enough Democrats who see infanticide as going too far. If that happens, the law will go to [Republican] Gov. [Glenn] Youngkin and I am confident that, given the opportunity, he will sign it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 35 states have passed similar legislation. It\u2019s one of two main life issues before the Virginia legislature this session, along with the parameters for informed consent before women obtain an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce a baby is born alive\u2026every possible medical care should be provided. Why isn\u2019t that obvious to everyone?\u201d said John Seeds, an OB-GYN and former department chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University. \u201cAt birth, they become a legal citizen and appropriate care should be required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-majority House also passed the Informed Consent\/Women\u2019s Right to Know bill Tuesday, introduced by Del. Karen Greenhalgh, R-Virginia Beach, to restore requirements removed by pro-abortion legislators in 2020. The bill would require abortion providers to present women with fully accurate, written information regarding the abortion procedure, available pregnancy support resources, and their rights prior to an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny woman contemplating abortion should be provided all information about the procedure including short- and long-term complications and the nature of the infant being aborted,\u201d Seeds commented. \u201cOtherwise, she is making a decision without all the needed information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first pro-life bill to make it to the House docket in three years, <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB212\">HB 212<\/a> requires basic informed consent previously in place in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelping mothers and fathers make informed decisions, which could include adoption for unwanted infants, will likely result in a win-win situation,\u201d said LaRock, sponsor of several pro-life bills this session. \u201cMothers are going to avoid the guilt that may come with the irreversible decision to abort her baby. Babies find loving homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Democrat-controlled Senate has proven a tough battleground for pro-lifers, with losses and wins in the session\u2019s first 30 days. Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, described Senate Republicans and Democrats as sitting on either side of a \u201cchasm\u201d on major issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might get a couple of bills I call \u2018do nothing\u2019 bills that are going to pass, but significant legislation that\u2019s going to have meaningful impact\u2014it\u2019s going to be hard to come by this session,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chase introduced legislation to restrict abortions to 20 weeks of gestation in Virginia, based on medical evidence that an unborn child experiences immense pain by that point. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB710\">\u201cpain capable\u201d<\/a> bill would allow for terminating a pregnancy if the mother\u2019s life or health were at risk, with the intent of giving the unborn child the best chance to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Siobahn Dunnavant, R-Henrico, a licensed OB-GYN in the state, provided strong testimony in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB710\">SB 710<\/a>, which was also supported by Youngkin, Chase said. The bill was defeated in the Senate Education and Health Committee late last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill was really a bill that showed compassion on the unborn,\u201d Chase said. \u201cIt\u2019s a humanity bill. It\u2019s recognizing a baby can feel pain and that we as a society need to be humane to those babies\u2026An unborn child has less legal protection from feeling pain than commercial livestock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surrogacy law in the Commonwealth currently allows a couple contracting with a surrogate to require an abortion of a disabled unborn child or to abort multiples. Sen. Mark J. Peake, R-Lynchburg, sponsored <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+cab+SC10203SB0163+UCSB3\">SB 163<\/a> to prohibit the practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fixes a very bad problem in Virginia, to get [the state] out of the business of abortion under our surrogacy laws,\u201d said Olivia Gans-Turner, president of the Virginia Society for Human Life. \u201cThe law is so old most legislators didn\u2019t know it was there\u201d until 2020, when a bill prohibiting it died in committee under a Democrat-majority House. The Senate voted unanimously in favor of the bill this session.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=221&#038;typ=bil&#038;val=HB1095&#038;submit=GO\">assisted suicide legalization bill<\/a> introduced by Democrats in the House and Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/VA\/bill\/SB668\/2022?utm_campaign=rss&#038;guid=61zvSZrK6BpATDbQigX0jq\">failed to pass the Senate<\/a> on a tie vote. Budgetary items, to include a Hyde Amendment bill limiting taxpayer funding of abortions in the state, will be considered later in the session.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Ashley Bateman is a policy writer for The Heartland Institute and blogger for Ascension Press. Her work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The New York Post, The American Thinker and numerous other publications. She previously worked as an adjunct scholar for The Lexington Institute and as editor, writer and photographer for The Warner Weekly, a publication for the American military community in Bamberg, Germany. <\/p>\n<p>Ashley is a board member at a Catholic homeschool cooperative in Virginia. She homeschools her four incredible children along with her brilliant engineer\/scientist husband.e who lives in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Virginia rounds the corner in its first session of 2022, legislation passed in the state\u2019s pro-life House faces major challenges in the Senate. 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