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Article: "INFANTICIDE" BILL NEW TACTIC FOR ABORTION FOES IN HOUSE MEASURE REDEFINES WHEN BIRTH OCCURS.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 28, 2003
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Byline: ROBERT McCABE THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
RICHMOND -- The abortion debate in Virginia shifted course on Monday when a House panel passed a bill based on a strict definition of when a birth has occurred - instead of when a life has begun.
The passage of HB1541 marks a strategic change for socially conservative legislators who are hoping to outlaw so-called ``partial-birth'' abortions. Those efforts have been frustrated by constitutionally protected rights to abortion.
The legislation - unprecedented in Virginia - never mentions the word ``abortion.'' Instead, it would establish that a child, in most cases, is born when the entire head is outside ...