Lawmaker Dawn Adams (pictured) from Virginia apologized to constituents for not reading a controversial bill on late-term abortions which she agreed to co-sponsor
A Democratic delegate who co-sponsored a bill repealing restrictions on late-term abortion said she wouldn't have supported it had she read it properly.
Lawmaker Dawn Adams, from Richmond, Virginia, apologized to constituents in an email, saying she did not fully understand the bill when she signed it as a co-sponsor.
The development comes after Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor of Virginia, provoked outrage by suggesting that a pregnancy could be terminated during the baby's birth.
Virginia Democratic Delegate Kathy Tran, the primary sponsor of the proposed legislation, released a video Thursday standing by the bill.
However in an email Dawn Adams said she didn’t know what was in the legislation before adding her name to it.
'By now you have heard about the abortion bill, or seen the video,' Adams said in the email.
'I vaguely remember signing on to this, and I did this in solidarity with my colleague and as a symbolic gesture for a woman’s right to choose.
She added: 'I am sorry that I did not exercise due diligence before this explosion of attention; had I done so, I would not have co-patroned.'
Adams said she thought it only reversed 'onerous' abortion regulations implemented by Republicans in 2012, and didn’t realize that it 'sought to do much more.'
Kathy Tran provoked fury this week when she was asked at a hearing if a woman about to give birth and dilating could still request an abortion.
'My bill would allow that, yes,' she said.
Adams apologized to constituents in an email , saying she did not fully understand the bill when she signed it as a co-sponsor
Virginia Democratic Delegate Kathy Tran (left) proposed a bill for abortions up until the moment of delivery to the Republican House majority leader on Monday
Tran released a video on social media on Thursday saying she 'was really surprised by the line of questioning that I got' in the hearing.
'I want to be very clear about what’s currently allowed in Virginia law,' Tran said.
'Right now women are able to access an abortion in the later stages of pregnancy under certain conditions with the approval of medical doctors.
'I’ve done nothing to change that. What I have done is try to make sure that women are able to make these decisions and access these services in a timely manner.'
Northam provoked fury in an interview with WTOP-FM on Wednesday, when he was asked the debate in the state legislature over a bill that would relax restrictions on third trimester abortions.
Northam, a pediatric neurologist, described a hypothetical situation where a severely deformed newborn infant could be left to die.
He said that if a woman were to desire an abortion as she's going into labor, the baby would be delivered and then 'resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue' between doctors and the mother.
And he refused to back down from comments . 'I have devoted my life to caring for children and any insinuation otherwise is shameful and disgusting,' Northam tweeted.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, described a hypothetical situation where a severely deformed newborn infant could be left to die
A demonstrator holds a sign as Ralph Northam speaks during a press conference at the Capitol in Richmond
Trump and other prominent Republicans were outraged at the remarks made by Ralph Northam, leading POTUS to call the Democrats 'the party of late-term abortion.'
'What’s shameful is that you're too cowardly to say point blank that it’s wrong to leave babies to die after birth,' Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse said in a statement Thursday.
'You could have said that yesterday. But because you’re terrified of an extremist pro-abortion lobby that now defends even infanticide, you're still ducking.'
Existing Virginia state law does not put an absolute time limit on abortions and Tran's legislation did not alter that.
Her legislation would reduce the number of doctors who would have to certify late-term abortions are needed from three to one.
It would also delete the requirement that doctors determine that continuing a pregnancy would 'substantially and irremediably' impair a woman's health. Instead doctors would only have to certify that the woman's health was impaired.
Supporters said the changes in law would help reduce the bureaucratic burdens women face when dealing with difficult decisions involving late-term abortions, which often involve serious medical complications.
Opponents of the legislation, which has failed in both the state House and Senate, said it would give essentially allow for late abortions on demand.
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Lawmaker Dawn Adams (pictured) from Virginia apologized to constituents for not reading a controversial bill on late-term abortions which she agreed to co-sponsor
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