HB 1274 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; created, penalty.

Summary
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks' gestation, the physician or authorized nurse practitioner is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician or authorized nurse practitioner who performs an abortion in violation of the Act.
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Jan 2022
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Introduced Jan 20, 2022 Last action Feb 15, 2022
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Jan 20, 2022
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Jan 20, 2022
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Presented and ordered printed 22103698D
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