2008
Bills
- Requires a doctor to offer to anesthetize a fetus before abortion. Forces a doctor to provide a patient materials stating that a fetus may feel pain after 20 weeks gestation.
- Prohibits public school employees from referring a patient for abortion care. Prohibits abortion providers and professionals who refer for abortion from providing any public school curricula related to human sexuality or STIs.
- TRAP bill: Forces abortion clinics to meet the same licensing requirements as ambulatory surgical centers.
- Ultrasound requirement bill.
- Prohibits public school employees from referring a patient for abortion care. Prohibits abortion providers and professionals who refer for abortion from providing any public school curricula related to human sexuality or STIs.
- TRAP bill: Forces abortion clinics to meet the same licensing requirements as ambulatory surgical centers.
- Backdoor effort to criminalize abortion: Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “coerce” someone into having an abortion.
- Makes abortion post-fetal viability a felony.
- Backdoor effort to criminalize abortion: Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “coerce” someone into having an abortion.
- TRAP bill: Criminal penalties for violations of TRAP regulations.
- Trigger ban: Makes all abortion illegal should Roe fall.
- Criminalizes a person who tries to self-manage an abortion.
Budget Amendments
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
- Defunds abortion providers.
- Directs $25,000 to a fake woman’s health center.
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
2009
Bills
- Requires a doctor to offer to anesthetize a fetus prior to abortion. Forces a doctor to provide a patient with materials stating that a fetus may feel pain after 20 weeks gestation.
- Prohibit public school employees from referring a patient for abortion care. Prohibits abortion providers and professionals who refer for abortion from providing any public school curricula related to human sexuality or STIs.
- TRAP bill: Forces abortion clinics to meet the same licensing requirements as ambulatory surgical centers.
- Ultrasound requirement bill.
- Requires a pregnant person to report “fetal death” to police.
- Backdoor “personhood” bill: Makes unintentional cause of stillbirth or miscarriage, such as by injury to the pregnant person, a felony.
- Authorizes the issuance of “Choose Life” license plates, which direct funds to fake women’s health centers.
- Authorizes the issuance of “Choose Life” license plates, which direct funds to fake women’s health centers.
- “Personhood” bill: Directly contradicts constitutional protections by outlawing abortion entirely.
Budget Amendments
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Defunds abortion providers.
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
2010
Bills
- Ultrasound requirement bill.
- Backdoor “personhood” bill: States that a fetus has an “independent and separate existence.”
- TRAP bill
- Backdoor effort to criminalize abortion: Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “coerce” someone into having an abortion.
- “Personhood” bill: Directly contradicts constitutional protections by outlawing abortion entirely.
- Requires “informed consent” materials to describe negative effects of abortion on future pregnancies.
- Criminalizes a person who tries to self-manage an abortion.
- Backdoor “personhood” bill: States that a fetus has an “independent and separate existence.”
Budget Amendments
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Defunds abortion providers.
- TRAP amendment.
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
2011
Bills
- Prevents health insurance plans sold through the ACA exchange from covering abortion services.
- Prevents health insurance plans sold through the ACA exchange from covering abortion services.
- “Personhood” bill.
- Backdoor effort to criminalize abortion: Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “coerce” someone into having an abortion, and allows for private right of action for the “wrongful death” of a fetus.
- Ultrasound requirement bill.
- TRAP bill.
- “Personhood” bill.
- TRAP bill: Directs Board of Health to create regulations.
- “Personhood” bill.
Budget Amendments
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Directs $150,000 state funds to a fake women’s health center.
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
- TRAP amendment.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
2012
Bills
- Prohibits any non-therapeutic research that subjects a fetus to risk.
- Ultrasound requirement bill, with the addition of a 24-hour waiting period and a mandate that the fetal ultrasound image and associated documents remain in a patient’s medical record.
- Incorporated ultrasound requirement into informed consent along with a mandate that the fetal ultrasound image and associated documents remain in a patient’s medical record.
- Ultrasound requirement, including Department of Health surveillance of facilities that perform free ultrasounds.
- Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
- 20-week abortion ban.
- Backdoor effort to criminalize abortion: Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “coerce” someone into having an abortion, and allows for private right of action for the “wrongful death” of a fetus.
- Ultrasound requirement.
- 20-week abortion ban.
- “Personhood” bill.
- Requires health insurers that offer plans covering abortion care to additionally offer identical plans excluding abortion care coverage.
Budget Amendments
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
Regulations
- 37 TRAP regulations were drafted to restrict the licensure of abortion clinics.
2013
Bills
- Backdoor effort to criminalize abortion: Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “coerce” someone into having an abortion, and allows for private right of action for the “wrongful death” of a fetus.
- 20-week abortion ban.
- “Personhood” bill.
- Requires health insurers that offer plans covering contraception, sterilization, or abortion to additionally offer identical plans excluding that coverage. Provides that employers offering health insurance for their employees are not required to include coverage of contraception, sterilization, or abortion.
- Requires health insurers that offer plans covering contraception, sterilization, or abortion to additionally offer identical plans excluding that coverage. Provides that employers offering health insurance for their employees are not required to include coverage of contraception, sterilization, or abortion.
- Backdoor criminalization bill: Makes it a felony to perform an abortion on the basis of fetal sex.
- Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
Budget Amendments
- Directs the Governor to prevent state agencies from enacting the ACA’s individual mandate in the cases of individuals whose religious values are opposed to having health insurance that covers contraception or sterilization.
- Directs the Governor to prevent state agencies from enacting the ACA’s contraception coverage mandate against an employer’s religious beliefs.
- Mandates a physician prioritize the life of a fetus over the life of the pregnant person in cases of life endangerment.
2014
Bills
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Backdoor criminalization bill: Makes it a felony to perform an abortion on the basis of fetal sex.
Budget Amendments
- Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
- Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
- Directs the Governor to prevent state agencies from enacting the ACA’s individual mandate in the cases of individuals whose religious values are opposed to having health insurance that covers contraception or sterilization.
- Directs the Governor to prevent state agencies from enacting the ACA’s contraception coverage mandate against an employer’s religious beliefs.
- Mandates a physician prioritize the life of a fetus over the life of the pregnant person in cases of life endangerment.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Prevents funding associated with a potential future Executive Order that would suspend TRAP regulations.
- Prohibits state funds from being directed to abortion services.
2015
Bills
- 20-week abortion ban.
- States that life begins at conception and that Roe is based on false science.
Budget Amendments
- Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
- Mandates a physician prioritize the life of a fetus over the life of the pregnant person in cases of life endangerment. Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
- Mandates a physician prioritize the life of a fetus over the life of the pregnant person in cases of life endangerment.
- Removes state funding for abortion in the case of fetal anomaly.
- Provides that state funds may not be used to change already-implemented TRAP regulations.
2016
Bills
- Prohibits funding for abortions that are not eligible for federal Medicaid matching (fetal anomaly). Prohibits funding for any entity that performs abortions except hospitals. Makes organizations that provide abortion care last priority in state contracting or grant-making.
- Backdoor attack on bodily autonomy: In the section of the Virginia Code regarding child abuse and neglect, includes a viable fetus as a child that can be abused and neglected, allowing for additional criminalization of pregnant people.
- 20-week abortion ban.
- Requires abortion clinics to provide burial or cremation of all fetal remains.
- Requires a 24-hour waiting period between informed consent and an abortion procedure. Requires that the informed consent include telling the pregnant person that an abortion increases health risks in future pregnancies. Doubles the civil penalty for failure to comply.
- States that life begins at conception and that Roe is based on false science.
- States that life begins at conception and that Roe is based on false science.
Budget Amendments
- Prohibits state funds from being used for abortion unless required by federal law.
- Cuts funding for a TANF block grant pilot program that provides reproductive health education and a LARC initiative.
- Provides funding for an increase in incarceration associated with a 20-week abortion ban.
- Provides funding for an increase in incarceration associated with a bill that would classify a fetus as a child whose abuse or neglect can be prosecuted.
- Provides funding for an increase in incarceration associated with a bill mandating cremation or burial of fetal remains.
- Prohibits state funds from being used for abortion unless required by federal law.
- Provides that state funds may not be used to change already-implemented TRAP regulations.
- Prohibits state funds from being used for abortion unless required by federal law.
- Defunds Planned Parenthood.
2017
Bills
- Designates the anniversary of Roe as a “Day of Tears.”
- Prohibits funding for abortions not eligible for federal Medicaid matching (fetal anomaly). Prohibits funding for any entity that performs abortions except hospitals. Makes organizations that provide abortion care last priority in state contracting or grant-making.
- 20-week abortion ban.
- 20-week abortion ban.
- Requires a 24-hour waiting period between informed consent and an abortion procedure. Requires that the informed consent include telling the pregnant person that an abortion increases health risks in future pregnancies. Doubles the civil penalty for failure to comply.
- States that Virginia law recognized a fetus as a person prior to Roe.
Budget Amendments
- Provides funding for an increase in incarceration associated with a 20-week abortion ban.
- Prohibits state funds from being used for abortion unless required by federal law.
2018
Bills
- Requires a person whose fetus is diagnosed with a irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly incompatible with life to be provided materials on neonatal hospice and palliative care.
- Backdoor “personhood” bill: States that a person who, by driving under the influence, somehow causes the death of a fetus, is guilty of manslaughter.
Budget Amendments
- Prohibits funding for abortions that are not eligible for federal Medicaid matching (fetal anomaly). Prohibits funding for any entity that performs abortions except hospitals. Makes organizations that provide abortion care last priority in state contracting or grant-making.
- Prohibits funding for abortion services except as required by federal law.
4-5.04 #1s – David Suetterlein
- Prohibits budget funding for abortion services except as required by federal law.
2019
Bills
- Prohibits all state funding for the provision of abortion services except in cases of life endangerment.
- Backdoor “personhood” bill: States that a person who, by driving under the influence, somehow causes the death of a fetus, is guilty of manslaughter.
Budget Amendments
- Prohibits funding for abortion services except as required by federal law.
4-5.04 #1s – David Suetterlein
- Prohibits funding for abortion services except as required by federal law.
- Restricts funding for LARC pilot program.
- Prohibits funding for abortions that are not eligible for federal Medicaid matching (fetal anomaly). Prohibits funding for any entity that performs abortions except hospitals. Makes organizations that provide abortion care last priority in state contracting or grant-making.
4-5.04 #1c – Conference amendment
- Prohibits funding for abortion services except as required by federal law.