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Abortion in the U.S. state of Virginia is legal up to the end of the second trimester of a pregnancy. [1] Before the year 1900, abortion remained largely illegal in Virginia, reflecting a widespread trend in many U.S. states during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abortion was viewed as a criminal act and subject to state laws that prohibited it.
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
1867 – Illinois passed a bill that made abortion and attempted abortion a criminal offense. [17] [9] 1869 – The Parliament of Canada unified criminal law in all provinces, banning abortion. [18] c. 1870 – Illinois passed another law banning the sale of drugs that could cause induced abortions. The law is notable because it allowed an ...
Abortion is already largely protected in the state, with voters having cleared the way for the legalization of abortion up to 24 weeks and in the case of medical emergencies back in a 1990 referendum.
If and when the Supreme Court follows through on a draft opinion reversing a landmark abortion-rights decision, Virginia’s relatively lax regulations on abortion would be the final word on the ...
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The Repeal Act (HB 2491) was a 2019 bill proposed in Virginia by Delegate Kathy Tran that would have repealed some of the state's restrictions on abortion.The bill would have reduced the number of physicians required to approve a third-term abortion (from three to one), and lowered the threshold for that approval to the requirement that there be a medical reason for the abortion, from the ...
Democrats campaigned on a promise to protect access to abortion in Virginia, which has some of the South's most permissive laws and is the only state in the region that has not imposed new ...