Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Vetoes Two Pro-Abortion Bills
On Friday, Governor Glenn Youngkin, for the second year in a row, vetoed two dangerous legislative packages that would have contributed to the destruction of many lives, undermined parental rights, and violated the conscience of many. We are thankful for Governor Youngkin’s steadfast resolve in rejecting these bills.
HB 1716 / SB 1105 would have established a broad “right to contraception,” which includes abortifacients like Ella and voluntary sterilization. These bills would have also extended this right to minors without any parental consent requirements.
HB 2371 / SB 780 would have forced insurance companies to cover “contraceptives,” including abortifacients, with no religious or conscience exemptions.
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Governor Youngkin’s vetoes come on the heels of a critical study using insurance data that reveals more than 1 in 10 women who take the abortion pill experience serious complications including hemorrhaging, infection, and sepsis—a statistic significantly higher than what the FDA has disclosed to the public. This study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center analyzed data from over 865,000 prescribed mifepristone abortions, and found that the actual complication rate stands at 10.93%, which is 22 times higher than the “less than 0.5%” figure reported in FDA-approved clinical trials.
How many women from Virginia were told mifepristone abortions were safe but ended up with serious complications? In fact, if we apply the 10.93% complication rate to Virginia’s number of women who had chemical abortions (66% of 38,920), we could estimate that over 2,800 women could have had some sort of complication. That doesn’t reflect a safe abortion method.
Unfortunately, the Governor did approve HB 1609, which requires a state commission to consider making procedures such as the unregulated practice of embryo banking, which involves IVF, as “essential health benefits.” While this bill doesn’t mandate coverage for these procedures, it does potentially bring us closer to fully endorsing this industry without any guardrails or consideration of alternative procedures to address infertility. It’s important to remember that while IVF creates some lives, it leads to the destruction of many others, and that there are other methods for addressing infertility that do not involve the loss of human lives.
We appreciate your support and advocacy on these issues. Of course, your voice will be vital in helping us reject the pro-abortion’s effort to enshrine unlimited abortion, performed by anyone, and without any protections for the mother.
LifeNews Note: Victoria Cobb is the president of The Family Foundation, based in Virginia.
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