Here are six questions to consider before voting on the amendment.
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- Do you support dismemberment abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy (24 weeks to birth) when the child is able to live outside the womb?
If you answer NO, then you must vote NO on the Reproductive
Freedom Amendment.
Children born alive at 21 weeks can live. They can breathe. Many are alive today. A full-term pregnancy is 36-40 weeks.
references:
Second-trimester abortion and risk of live birth
Unintended Live Births Following Second Trimester Pregnancy Termination by Labor Induction.
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- Do you support withholding medical care to babies who are born alive during second and third trimester (21 weeks-birth) abortion procedures?
If you answered NO, then you must not NO on the Reproductive Freedom Amendment.
Please note this citation is of children born in 2nd trimester abortions. 50% survived the abortion.
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- Do you support a decrease in emergency care that unrestricted abortion would bring? Abortion clinics do not have the same clinical standards as outpatient surgical centers.
If you answered NO, then you must vote NO on the Reproductive Freedom Amendment.
Life threatening emergencies experience by women having an abortion include: uncontrolled bleeding, perforation of the uterus or intestines, sepsis brought on by baby parts left in the uterus. Abortion clinics do not have to maintain the same standards as outpatient surgical centers. changing the Virginia Constitution means that current laws on the books designed to protect women’s health from abortion medications and procedures will be automatically overturned in favor of the “constitutional right” to abortion on demand. If abortion on demand through birth is the ultimate goal, it can be assumed that the women would accept all consequences for abortion on demand as part of the risk of abortion.
11% of women receiving the abortion pill require emergency treatment for a potentially life threatening condition.
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- Do you presume minors traveling within the state and/or across state lines without parental consent or notification are not trafficked?
If you answered NO, then you must vote NO on the Reproductive Freedom Amendment.
Access to abortion is currently being abused by traffickers of women and girls to abort babies conceived in rape. Any laws currently on the books concerning mandatory reporting of suspected trafficking victims at abortion clinics will be superseded by the “constitutional right” to abortion on demand.
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- Is the right to abortion on demand of such value that you would relinquish the prosecution of child predators or human traffickers?
If you answered NO, then you must vote NO on the Reproductive Freedom Amendment.
This constitutional amendment protects a person for the act of bringing a minor to “reproductive health” services. This creates a presumption that the person bringing the minor to the services is doing this in the interest of the minor. That presumption reduces the likelihood that legitimate questions about whether the minor is being abused or trafficked are asked.
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- Mifepristone, one of the drugs used in chemical abortions, has a Black Box and REMS warning. Black Box warnings indicate significant risk from the medication and those risks includes death. Do you support the expansion of access, including mail order and remote appointments, to obtain this medication?
If you answered NO, then you must vote NO on the Reproductive Freedom Amendment.
Of the thousands of drugs on the market, approximately 300 have the dual warning of a black box and REMS warning. Women should received documented informed consent on medications. They must understand the risks, benefits and alternatives for the medications.
Should a minor make this decision? Should a minor make this decision without parental knowledge?
