{"id":276068,"date":"2022-09-14T06:38:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276068"},"modified":"2022-09-21T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:59:51","slug":"west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

Update 9\/19\/22<\/strong>: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed into law on Friday a pro-life bill that will protect nearly all preborn babies from abortion. The law will take effect immediately, but penalties for breaking the law will go into effect in 90 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done exactly what I said I would do \u2013 I\u2019ve signed it,\u201d Justice said<\/a> at a news conference Friday morning.<\/p>\n

He added that he is \u201cproud that I signed it and I believe wholeheartedly that it does one thing that is absolutely so important \u2013 it does protect life.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Bill 302 prohibits abortions except in cases of rape and incest for the first eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and the first 14 weeks of pregnancy for minors. The sexual assault must be reported to law enforcement at least 48 hours before the abortion. There is also an exception for preborn babies whom doctors believe will not survive, and for emergencies such as ectopic pregnancy, though surgery for ectopic pregnancies is not considered induced abortion.<\/p>\n

9\/14\/2022<\/strong>: The West Virginia House and Senate have passed the pro-life House Bill 302<\/a>, sending it to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice, who had previously added the bill<\/a> to a special session in July. The bill passed both houses overwhelmingly \u2014 22-7 in the Senate and 78-17 in the House.<\/p>\n

HB 302 prohibits abortion except in cases of reported rape, if the baby is deemed “nonmedically viable,” there is a “medical emergency,” or the pregnancy is ectopic. Induced abortion is never necessary for any of these instances. In a medical emergency, a child can be delivered via preterm delivery or an emergency C-section without being deliberately killed first. Finally, surgery for ectopic pregnancy is not considered an induced abortion because the intent is not to kill the child but to save the mother.<\/p>\n

According to PBS<\/a>, under the proposed law, abortion would be allowed up to eight weeks in cases of rape or incest if the assault is reported to law enforcement 48 hours prior to undergoing the abortion, and the woman must present the police report to the abortionist. According to AP News<\/a>, minors who have been raped can have an abortion up to 14 weeks.<\/p>\n

“It is going to shut down that abortion clinic, of that, I feel certain,” said Sen. Robert Karnes (R). “I believe it’s going to save a lot of babies.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0The irrefutable case for the rights of preborn human beings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The law also states that surgical abortions can only be committed at state-licensed hospitals by a physician who has hospital privileges. Anyone else who commits an abortion could face up to 10 years in prison. Women who undergo illegal abortions will not be penalized.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Screenshot: Women’s Health Center of West Virginia.<\/p><\/div>\n

There is only one abortion facility in the state \u2014\u00a0the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, which commits abortions up to 17 weeks and six days. Its website<\/a> states it commits abortions using the abortion pill up to 11 weeks, a D&C (aspiration abortion) procedure up to 16 weeks and six days, and “a combination of suction and instruments to complete the abortion procedure” beginning at 17 weeks. This essentially means that at 17 weeks, a baby will be killed by dismemberment in a D&E abortion procedure.<\/p>\n

The bill is scheduled to take effect 90 days after passage and is expected to be signed by Gov. Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 9\/19\/22: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed into law on Friday a pro-life bill that will protect nearly all preborn babies from abortion. The law will take effect immediately, but penalties for breaking the law will go into effect in 90 days. \u201cI\u2019ve done exactly what I said I would do \u2013 I\u2019ve signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":276089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[14994,16422,19100,19101,3371],"yoast_head":"\nWest Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has signed a pro-life law that will protect most preborn babies in the state from abortion.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has signed a pro-life law that will protect most preborn babies in the state from abortion.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-14T11:38:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-21T14:59:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1230659035-west-virgina-legislature.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\"},\"headline\":\"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-14T11:38:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-21T14:59:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\"},\"wordCount\":583,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"abortion restriction\",\"Gov. Jim Justice\",\"gov. justice\",\"House Bill 302\",\"West Virginia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Newsbreak\",\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\",\"name\":\"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-14T11:38:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-21T14:59:51+00:00\",\"description\":\"West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has signed a pro-life law that will protect most preborn babies in the state from abortion.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\",\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nancy Flanders\"},\"description\":\"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion","description":"West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has signed a pro-life law that will protect most preborn babies in the state from abortion.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion","og_description":"West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has signed a pro-life law that will protect most preborn babies in the state from abortion.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2022-09-14T11:38:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-21T14:59:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":650,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1230659035-west-virgina-legislature.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nancy Flanders","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nancy Flanders","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/"},"author":{"name":"Nancy Flanders","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef"},"headline":"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion","datePublished":"2022-09-14T11:38:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-21T14:59:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/"},"wordCount":583,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["abortion restriction","Gov. Jim Justice","gov. justice","House Bill 302","West Virginia"],"articleSection":["Newsbreak","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/","name":"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-09-14T11:38:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-21T14:59:51+00:00","description":"West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has signed a pro-life law that will protect most preborn babies in the state from abortion.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/west-virginia-legislature-preborn-governor-sign\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"West Virginia governor signs pro-life law protecting most preborn babies from abortion"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef","name":"Nancy Flanders","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nancy Flanders"},"description":"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276450,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068\/revisions\/276450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}