{"id":221668,"date":"2020-04-10T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T23:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221668"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:41:00","slug":"va-gov-signs-bill-removing-safe-standards-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/va-gov-signs-bill-removing-safe-standards-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia gov signs bill removing abortion safety standards, claims it will ‘make women and families safer’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed two bills into law today, which he referred to as “The Reproductive Health Protection Act.” Together, the two bills, SB 733<\/a> and HB 980<\/a>, repeal Virginia’s laws requiring a 24-hour waiting period and an ultrasound before any abortion<\/a>, and overturn multiple other regulations and safety standards meant to keep women safe.<\/p>\n

As previously noted<\/a> by Live Action News, the Act “will do away with common-sense requirements, such as ambulatory surgical center standards for abortion facilities, a 24-hour waiting period, delivery of informed consent materials, and a transabdominal ultrasound before an abortion. The bill would also allow non-physicians such as physician\u2019s assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified-nurse midwives, to commit abortions.”<\/p>\n

“No more will legislators in Richmond \u2014 most of whom are men \u2014 be telling women what they should and should not be doing with their bodies,” Northam said in a statement<\/a>. “The Reproductive Health Protection Act will make women and families safer, and I’m proud to sign it into law.”<\/p>\n

The bill will go into effect on July 1st, and yet, despite what Northam claims, does not actually make women safer at all, nor does it align with what Americans want.<\/p>\n