{"id":197021,"date":"2019-02-20T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T03:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197021"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:59:25","slug":"vermont-house-abortion-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vermont-house-abortion-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont House passes bill to codify abortion into state law with zero limits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE 3\/23\/2019:<\/strong>\u00a0Vermont’s Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted 5-0 on Friday to approve a bill known as the Right to Personal Reproductive Liberty, according to WCAX<\/a>. It will now move to the full Senate and if approved, move to the House. The bill seeks to amend the Vermont\u00a0state constitution to ensure a “right” to abortion.<\/p>\n

In order for the constitution to be amended, the bill must be approved by two consecutively elected legislatures and then approved by voters in a statewide vote. This bill is separate from the one which passed last month in the Vermont House which would codify abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy should Roe v. Wade be overturned.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2\/24\/2019:<\/strong> The Vermont House of Representatives officially passed<\/a> the expansive abortion bill to codify into Vermont law abortion on demand without a single restriction through all nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

House Bill 57 – An Act Relating to Preserving the Right to an Abortion passed by a vote of 106-37 on February 21.<\/p>\n

2\/20\/2019:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>The Vermont House on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to an expansive bill that will ensure legal abortion<\/a> through all nine months of pregnancy with zero restrictions in the state.\u00a0It overwhelmingly passed on a preliminary basis, 104-40<\/a>. The full vote is expected on Thursday.
\nOpponents of the bill — House Bill 57<\/a> — brought up ten different amendments during the hearing today, but each of those amendments were shot down by the bill’s proponents, according to MyChamplainValley.com<\/a>. One amendment called for parental consent for minors before obtaining an abortion. Another, proposed by Reps. Carl Rosenquist (R) and Robert Bancroft (R), called for a ban on abortion after six months or 24 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases in which a woman’s health is at risk. (In reality, abortion is never necessary<\/a> to save a woman’s life, as explained by former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino in the video below.) For women at this stage, a c-section is faster and safer, and no one is purposefully killed. While c-sections take minutes, a late-term abortion takes three days.<\/p>\n

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