{"id":325840,"date":"2025-02-05T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=325840"},"modified":"2025-02-05T06:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:28:32","slug":"virginia-senate-abortionists-break-laws-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/virginia-senate-abortionists-break-laws-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Senate passes bill to protect abortionists who break laws of pro-life states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Virginia Senate on Monday passed<\/a> a bill that would block the extradition of abortionists who face criminal charges for committing abortions on women from pro-life states. This shield law, however, would not<\/em> protect an abortionist who commits the abortion within the borders of the pro-life state.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 1098<\/a> states, “Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of the laws of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged criminal violation involves a protected health care activity, unless the alleged criminal violation would also constitute a criminal offense under the laws of the Commonwealth [of Virginia].”<\/p>\n

The Senate debated the bill, which also extends to cross-gender treatments, for 40 minutes, with Republicans expressing concern that minors will be sent the abortion pill without being seen by a doctor and without the knowledge of their parents via telemed abortion. Senator Mark Obenshain said that the bill “provides an avenue to circumvent the laws of other states.”<\/p>\n

And indeed, abortion “shield laws” are meant to do exactly that<\/em> \u2014 to allow doctors from pro-abortion states to break the laws of pro-life states by providing abortions (typically by means of sending abortion pills) to women living in those states.<\/p>\n