State Legislatures Brace for a 2023 Landslide of Post-Roe Abortion Bills

Delegate Marie March (R-Floyd) enters her second session in Virginia’s General Assembly with lessons learned during her freshman year about the futility of half-measures on her mind.

That is why she will carry a “personhood” bill when, on Jan. 11, the 100-member Virginia House of Delegates convenes in Richmond, one of 45 state legislatures that will kick off 2023 legislative sessions in January.

“Last session I considered carrying a heartbeat bill, but that’s six, seven weeks” during which abortion is allowed, March told The Epoch Times. “I never carried it. I didn’t think it went far enough. That’s why I submitted this bill this year.”

Pre-filed House Bill 1395 states “life begins at conception and each person is accorded the same rights and protections guaranteed to all persons” and repeals all state law provisions “allowing for the performance of abortions.”

HB 1395 has little chance to be adopted as drafted, she acknowledges, with a Democratic Senate majority and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin expressing support for restricting access to abortion—now legal up to 24 weeks in Virginia—to no later than 15 weeks, but not endorsing attempts to outlaw it altogether.

“It will be interesting to see how it all plays out,” March said…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)