Virginia House Bill 986 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Producing abortion or miscarriage; penalty. Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to, or causes to be taken by, a pregnant female, any drug or other thing, or uses means with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage, and thereby destroys such child or produces such abortion or miscarriage, is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill excepts medically approved contraceptives or legally prescribed medication as a means of producing abortion or miscarriage. Current law does not with specificity include the pregnant female as a possible perpetrator.

Abortion or miscarriage; penalty.

Del. Chris Jones [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2010-01-13		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-13		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103270D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	71	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB986
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB986+hil