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AlterNet reports:
Virginia State Delegate Marie March (R) has pre-filed House Bill 1395, a law that would define life as beginning at fertilization. “Life begins at conception and each person is accorded the same rights and protections guaranteed to all persons by the Constitution of the United States,” the proposed bill states.
The proposed bill would effectively outlaw all abortions in the state and even endanger the use of Plan B (aka. “The morning-after pill”), a medication that prevents fertilized egg cells from attaching to a woman’s uterine wall.
The bill could also effectively criminalize in vitro fertilization, a method of inducing pregnancy that uses fertilized eggs and discards any unused ones.
Virginia’s Cardinal News reports:
As Democrats and Republicans across Virginia put their partisan differences aside and together mourned the loss of Rep. Don McEachin, a Democrat from Henrico County who died at the age of 61 Monday, state Del. Marie March, R-Floyd County, used the lawmaker’s death to criticize him for his efforts to protect abortion rights.
“I did not know Congressman McEachin but I was terribly sad to read that his last political effort during his life was to enshrine abortion,” March wrote in a Facebook post late on Monday, shortly after the news of the congressman’s death broke.
“I hope that when my days on Earth are done and God calls me home that I will have lived my life if only to save even one unborn life.”
Virginia State Delegate Marie March has pre-filed House Bill 1395, a law that would define life as beginning at fertilization. https://t.co/GR40hoqXMT
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