YOUTUBE | THE REPUBLICAN STANDARD | 2019

Delegate Tran’s bill is Virginia House Bill 2491.


SUMMARY OF THE BILL AS INTRODUCED (emphasis added):
“Abortion; eliminate certain requirements. Eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital. The bill eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman’s informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill does not change the requirement that a woman’s informed written consent be first obtained.

The bill also removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.”

Transcript of video from 1:10-2:20:

CHAIR: How late in the third trimester could a physician perform and abortion if he indicated it [live baby] would impair the mental health of the woman?

TRAN: Or physical health.

CHAIR: Okay.

TRAN: Okay.

CHAIR: I’m, I’m talking about the mental health.

TRAN: So, I mean, through the third trimester. The third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks.

CHAIR: Okay. But to the end of the third trimester?

TRAN: Yep. I don’t think we have a limit in the bill.

CHAIR: so, um, where it’s obvious that a woman is about to give birth. She has physical signs that she’s about to give birth. Would that still be a point at which she could request an abortion if she was so certified? She’s dialing.

TRAN: Um, Mr. Chairman that would a, you know, a decision that the doctor, the physician and the woman would make at that point.

CHAIR: I understand that. I’m asking if your bill allows that.

TRAN: My bill would allow that, yes.

CHAIR: I certainly could have said a week from her due date and that would have been the same answer, correct?

TRAN: That it’s allowed in the bill? Yes.


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