SB584 would remove the rape and incest exception to obtain an abortion in West Virginia.
The Senate failed to advance SB584 when it adopted a motion to table the bill on February 23, 2023, by a vote of 29 to 5. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government. West Virginia ought to forbid abortion entirely and uphold the sanctity of life for every person, especially preborn children. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.