Legislator Filed ‘Abortion during Delivery’ and Pro-Caterpillar Bills on the Same Day
The same Virginia legislator who filed a bill this year that would have allowed abortion during a woman’s delivery also filed a bill to prohibit the targeting of a certain type of caterpillar by pesticides.
The bills were filed the same day.
HB 2491 by Del. Kathy Tran would have eliminated many of the restrictions on late-term abortion and even would have permitted an abortion while a woman was dilated and in delivery, as Christian Headlines previously reported.
That bill was filed Jan. 9, the same day she filed HB 2495, which pertained to the fall cankerworm. Specifically, it would have prohibited “localities from spraying pesticides intended to suppress an infestation of the fall cankerworm during the period between March 1 and August 1.”...