[Active-l] (ACTION ITEM) (VIRGINIA) Bill introduced to ban reproductive assistance for unmarried women

[Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)]

	Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Manassas) is introducing a bill to ban 
reproductive assistance for unmarried women. The specific targets are 
lesbian and gay couples, particularly lesbians who wish to bear 
children. Anyone in Virginia should write in against this.
					- Dara

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VIRGINIA HOUSE BILL NO. 187
State of Virginia
Offered January 11, 2006
Prefiled January 2, 2006
Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Manassas)

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB187

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 
54.1-2403.4, relating to prohibition on the provision of certain 
intervening medical technology to unmarried women.

----------Patron-- Marshall, R.G.
----------Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 
54.1-2403.4 as follows:

§ 54.1-2403.4. Prohibition on the provision of certain intervening 
medical technology for unmarried women.

No individual licensed by a health regulatory board shall assist with 
or perform any intervening medical technology, whether in vivo or in 
vitro, for or on an unmarried woman that completely or partially 
replaces sexual intercourse as the means of conception, including, but 
not limited to, artifical insemination by donor, cryopreservation of 
gametes and embryos, invitro fertilization, embryo transfer, gamete 
intrafallopian tube transfer, and low tubal ovum transfer.