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 eliminates the requirement that two other physicians certify that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman’s death OR IMPAIRMENT OF HER MENTAL or physical HEALTH, as well as the need to find that any such impairment to the woman’s health would be substantial and irremediable.
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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