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<\/a><\/p>\nby Stephen Wynne \u2022 ChurchMilitant.com<\/p>\n
New York’s new abortion law is emboldening agents of the Culture of Death. On Tuesday, Virginia lawmaker\u00a0Kathy Tran (D) put forward a proposal\u00a0to dramatically weaken the commonwealth’s pro-life laws. Though the bill failed to advance, observers note it signals a\u00a0growing radicalism among Democrats.<\/p>\n
Under current Virginia law, a woman can obtain a third-trimester abortion only if three doctors agree that continuing the pregnancy would “substantially and irremediably impair” her mental or physical health.<\/p>\n
In addition to repealing several other hard-won pro-life provisions, Tran’s bill would have struck the term “substantially and irremediably” from the books and reduced the\u00a0number of doctors needed to sign off on a late-term abortion from three to one.<\/p>\n
This means that after consulting a single abortionist, a woman would be able to abort her baby up to the moment of birth for reasons of “mental health.”<\/p>\n
In testimony before a state legislative committee Tuesday, Tran was pressed by a Republican colleague on the gravity of her proposal; she confirmed that her bill would allow a dilating woman to kill her child.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was asked about the bill. Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, backed Tran, and went on to describe what would happen\u00a0if a baby survived an intended abortion, saying\u00a0“the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”<\/p>\n
Critics lashed out, noting Northam \u2014 a recipient of millions of dollars in Planned Parenthood campaign donations \u2014 had, in effect, endorsed infanticide for newborn abortion survivors.<\/p>\n
Events in New York, Virginia\u00a0and other states reflect the “Culture of Death” Pope John Paul II prophesied in his\u00a01995 encyclical\u00a0Evangelium Vitae<\/em>.\u00a0Any society embracing contraception, he warned, will embrace abortion, then infanticide\u00a0and, finally, euthanasia.<\/p>\n Watch the panel discuss Democrats’ late-term abortion push in<\/em>\u00a0The Download\u2014Greenlighting Infanticide<\/a>.<\/p>\n