This week Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran introduced a bill that would have loosened restrictions on abortions through 9 months of pregnancy, including removing even minimal procedural standards. The bill was tabled.
Co-sponsor Delegate Dawn Adams, a nurse practitioner, withdrew her co-sponsorship, saying she did not read the bill before signing it.
Virgina Governor Ralph Northam, formerly a pediatrician, when questioned about the proposed bill allowing abortion up to birth, went on to describe what amounts to infanticide saying a baby born alive would be resuscitated, "if that's what the mother and family desired".
After intense pressure, it was expected Northam would back down in a press conference held the next day. Instead, he went to the Democrat talking points playbook, accusing those outraged of inserting politics between a woman's decision with her doctor.
The reality is, women are often pressured by their doctors to abort without being given information about life-affirming …More