SB716 prevents the Board of Medicine from disciplining a doctor for providing abortions that is legal under Virginia law, regardless of where the abortion happened.
The Virginia State Senate passed SB716 on February 6, 2024 by a vote of 21 to 18. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the U.S. Constitution, and SB716 violates that right. Furthermore, there should be a greater effort to provide specific protections for the right to life beyond those provided by the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments.