Same Day Democrat Pushed Late-Term Abortion Bill, She Also Pushed Bill To Save Caterpillars
While Gov. Ralph Northam is the Democrat most closely associated with the controversy regarding the Virginia abortion bill that would allow a child to be killed up until more or less the moment of birth, someone had to come up with the legislation.
That someone is Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran, who introduced HB 2491, “Abortion; eliminate certain requirements.”
According to the summary, the bill “eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital. The bill eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman’s informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill does not change the requirement that a woman’s informed written consent be first obtained.
“The bill eliminates the requirement that two other physicians certify that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman’s death or impairment of her mental or physical health, as well as the need to find that any such impairment to the woman’s health would be substantial and irremediable,” it continues.
“The bill also removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.”
That’s some extremely anti-life stuff. However, on the same day, it’s worth pointing out she did introduce a pro-life bill.
I mean, provided that you’re a caterpillar.
On Jan. 9 — the same day that the radical abortion bill was introduced — Tran also introduced HB 2495, which “prohibits localities from spraying pesticides intended to suppress an infestation of the fall cankerworm during the period between March 1 and August 1.”
Well, thank goodness we’re looking out for the cankerworm, a caterpillar that becomes a gypsy moth.
Tran, by the way, has gotten off of social media now that the controversy over her bill has hit; according to The Daily Caller, she deleted her accounts once the abortion bill became a major issue.
The Virginia GOP, meanwhile, had this to say about it:
What do an unborn baby in the third trimester and Delegate Kathy Tran’s Twitter account have in common?
Neither can defend themselves on Twitter.
— Virginia GOP (RPV) (@VA_GOP) January 30, 2019
The great irony of this is that even though this contentious bill may have made Tran decide on radio silence, it didn’t actually receive much play in the media until Gov. Northam decided to go above and beyond what she had proposed.
“When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of the mother, with the consent of physicians, more than one physician by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus which is non-viable,” Northam said.
“So in this particular example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.”
So Gov. Northam appears to be proposing infanticide. (Northam’s people insisted the governor wasn’t talking about termination as an option, a claim that the context doesn’t support.) Tran believes that killing a baby a few minutes before birth is all right but a few minutes after birth would be murderous.
And she believes caterpillars ought to be protected, too. Don’t forget that.
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