Va. Bill Would Remove Abortion Funding for Women With Severely Deformed Fetuses

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Whatever can be the worst and most harmful the republicans champion.

http://www.alternet.org/gender/va-bill-would-remove-abortion-funding-women-severely-deformed-fetuses?akid=9960.1119768.xL975T&rd=1&src=newsletter781949&t=15

A proposal in the Virginia General Assembly to eliminate state funding for certain abortions could force some low-income women to carry to term a fetus with a low likelihood of survival.

Sen. Tom Garrett’s (R-Lynchburg) bill would repeal a provision of Virginia law that authorizes the Board of Health to pay for abortions for women who meet Medicaid eligibility requirements after a physician certifies that he or she believes “the fetus will be born with a gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or with a gross and totally incapacitating mental deficiency.”

Opponents of Garrett’s bill, including some Senate Democrats, argue that it would unduly burden low-income women economically, physically, and emotionally.

The number of abortions at issue is relatively small.

[mainer]

1. The bill should add that Virginia is responsible for the lifetime care of these infants

That would make them think twice.

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2. K&R!!! Exactly!!! n/t

[MineralMan]

3. +100. Perfect. Even better,

require those legislators who vote for it to adopt those infants at birth and care for them.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. All of those deformed fetuses should be turned over immediately to Tom Garrett. He

can then pay for their medical care/burial from his own pocket.

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5. Yep!!! n/t

[kestrel91316]

6. Good. Now make the state of VA pay for all their prenatal care and delivery costs and then pay

for all expenses associated with these children for as long as they live.

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7. They never connect the dots and implications of their spew. n/t