Olivia Turner of the Virginia Society for Human Life tells One New Now there is now a push to use taxpayers’ funds, and private insurers, to pay for abortion coverage.
A second bill would require that Obamacare health care exchanges offered in the state must pay for abortions as well.
The Virginia General Assembly was gavelled in Jan. 13 for a 30-day session.
According to Turner, HB 1922 offered by Delegate Marcia Price last year, and now this year, calls for expanding Medicaid funding for abortion.
“Not just those allowed under the Hyde Amendment in Medicare,” she advises, “but all abortions. So that would expand abortion service and coverage by taxpayer dollars immensely.”
Virginia voters gave Democrats control of the General Assembly and Senate in 2019, overcoming slim GOP majorities in what is considered a swing state.
President Joe Biden promised voters he would tackle the coronavirus pandemic better than Donald Trump, whom Democrats accused of being responsible for 400,000 deaths to date, but in the course of one day the new president snapped at a reporter over vaccine distribution and his new press secretary dodged a question about his mask-skipping hypocrisy.
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Virginia’s liberal-led legislature is set to deal with abortion in the 2021 legislative session, and pro-life activists are bracing for the political and moral fight.
While the annual March for life has been cancelled this year in Washington, D.C., some states and cities will have pro-lifers marching for the unborn.