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Senate rejects parental-consent and 'live-birth' amendments to reproductive-freedom constitutional resolution
Summary
Richmond — The Virginia Senate debated and voted down two floor amendments to a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine a right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution, then advanced the underlying resolution to a third, constitutional reading.
Richmond — The Virginia Senate debated and voted down two floor amendments to a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine a right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution, then advanced the underlying resolution to a third, constitutional reading.
Senators voted 19–21 against the Durant floor amendment, which would have added explicit parental-consent language relating to minors, and voted 19–21 against the Jordan amendment, which would have required that an infant born alive after an abortion receive medical care.
The debate centered on how broadly the constitutional text should protect reproductive-health decisions and whether adding specific parental-consent or infant-care language would override existing statutes or invite legal challenges. After the floor votes, the Senate agreed to engross and advance the main resolution, SJR 247, to its third constitutional reading.
Why it matters: SJR 247 would place the question of a constitutional…
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