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Anonymous ID: b4b844 Feb. 2, 2019, 6:01 p.m. No.5008026   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8030

On the first day of the 2019 legislative session, Tran introduced the Repeal Act, a bill that would would broaden the circumstances under which women in Virginia can receive late-term abortions. Tran's bill would allow third-trimester abortions to occur if a single physician determines that continued pregnancy would pose any risk to a woman's physical or mental health. Currently, Virginia law states that such abortions are only legal if three physicians agree that continued pregnancy would pose "substantial and irremediable danger" to a woman's health.[10][11][12] The Repeal Act would also allow second-trimester abortions to be performed in clinics instead of hospitals and would remove the requirement that an ultrasound be performed before an abortion.[12][13][14]

 

While testifying in the House of Delegates, Tran said that her bill would maintain Virginia's current law allowing third-term abortions to occur up to the point of dilating, which was accused by Republicans of allowing legal infanticide.[10][11] Tran's bill would not allow abortions to be performed as the fetus is entering a woman's birth canal.[12] Although Tran's bill failed to pass the state legislature, video of her testimony went viral after being shared by conservative media outlets.[10][15] Tran suspended her social media accounts in response to threats against herself and her family.[10][16] She said that she misspoke, and that when asked about when a woman is dilating, she should have said, "Clearly, no, because infanticide is not allowed in Virginia, and what would have happened in that moment would be a live birth."