Northam said the controversy regarding made by Del. Kathy Tran on her late-term abortion bill was “overblown.”
Tran acknowledged during a hearing that her bill would allow abortions up until moments before birth. But existing state law already provides for abortions throughout the third trimester, if three doctors certify a woman’s health would otherwise be substantially and irremediably impaired.
Tran’s bill would reduce the number of doctors required to certify late-term abortions from three to one. It also would delete the words “substantially and irremediably” when referring to the threat that continuing a pregnancy poses for impairing a woman’s health.
“I wasn’t there and I certainly can’t speak for Delegate Tran,” Northam said, but he added, “This is why decisions should be made by providers, physicians, mothers and fathers.”
Northam, a doctor, said that such procedures happen “where there may be severe deformities [or] a fetus that’s nonviable.”
He explained, “The infant would be delivered; the infant would be kept comfortable; the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desire, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
Northam added, “This is why legislators, most of whom are men, by the way, shouldn’t be telling a woman what she should and shouldn’t be doing with her body. … We want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.”
He said that he would still support the notion of requiring certification from more than one doctor: “I think it’s always good to get a second opinion.”
If it's NOT a viable baby, it will die on it's own!!
Northam says that men should not be telling women what to do with their bodies - but if the infant is born, how can they say that the body is still the mother’s. It is the infant’s body.
If that is not the case. then how can the medical profession justify the costs of inutero surgeries on unborn infants still in the womb? Miraculous medical procedures performed on unborn infants are reported now on a regular basis.
“We want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.”
Wow, an area of life RATs don’t want government involved in...who knew?