He can say whatever he wants. Until he actually retracts/ammends the proposed law and doesn't just talk about what his 'intent' was, I'll continue to assume this was his attempt to stave off the bleeding wound from the knife he shoved into his political career.
it is my understanding that he has said as much-- that he is giving up on this one. so yey for everyone who wrote!! unfortunately, this is only one bad law deflected...i like the quote on the website that dave posted here: eternal vigilance the price of liberty.
There is also the continued (baseline) problem that virginia does not put an age frame on "miscarriage" versus "birth". Most states set a "time before which" at about 20 weeks. I believe the destinction is that before approx 20 weeks it is considered a fetus, after which it is considered somthing more akin to an infant (not sure of the exact terminology, lisa or erik could answer it better). The fear is that a woman would have a miscarriage at 10 or 15 weeks, throw out the "products of conception" in the garbage, and be prosecuted for "abandonment". Virginia law does not currently make a destinction between a fetus at 15 weeks of gestation and one at 35.
Thus we still have the baseline problem of expanding the definition of infant to an insane degree.
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I believe the destinction is that before approx 20 weeks it is considered a fetus, after which it is considered somthing more akin to an infant (not sure of the exact terminology, lisa or erik could answer it better).
The fear is that a woman would have a miscarriage at 10 or 15 weeks, throw out the "products of conception" in the garbage, and be prosecuted for "abandonment". Virginia law does not currently make a destinction between a fetus at 15 weeks of gestation and one at 35.
Thus we still have the baseline problem of expanding the definition of infant to an insane degree.
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