Virginia House Bill 2241 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Unborn child protection from dismemberment abortion; penalties. Prohibits the practice of dismemberment abortion, which is defined in the bill as meaning to, with the purpose of causing the death of an unborn child, purposely dismember a living unborn child and extract him one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors, or any other instrument that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush, or grasp a portion of the unborn child's body to cut or rip such portion of the unborn child's body. The term does not include an abortion that uses suction to dismember the body of an unborn child by sucking fetal parts into a collection container, but it does include an abortion in which a dismemberment abortion is used to cause the death of an unborn child but suction is subsequently used to extract fetal parts after the death of the unborn child. The bill provides that a person who purposely performs a dismemberment abortion is guilty of a Class 4 felony. A cause of action is also created for injunctive relief and civil damages. An exception is made when a dismemberment abortion is necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother.

Unborn child protection from dismemberment abortion; penalties.

Del. Dave LaRock [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2021-01-13	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2021-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102889D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2973.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB2241
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB2241+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2241F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2241F122+PDF