RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s Senate passed legislation Tuesday that requires women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasound exams.
The 21-19 final vote was largely along party lines with Democrats Charles Colgan and Phil Puckett allying themselves with Republicans and one Republican, John Watkins, voting against the measure.
The amended measure heads back to the House for its concurrence. An amendment last week eliminates mandatory vaginal ultrasound probes that provoked national scorn and ridicule. One adopted Tuesday exempts victims of rape and incest who reported the attacks to police.
Along mostly party lines, the GOP-led Senate rejected amendments that would have made the procedure optional, force insurers or the state to cover it, and to exempt women who can’t afford it.
another state I will NEVER visit again
Time to change the motto…….
Virginia is for Violators
How is the doctor going to thump his Bible and work the wand at the same time?
No woman wants to see her baby right before it dies. That would make her a mother. It is her choice after all. A choice she has to live with while her baby does not.