Virginia House Bill No. 187

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.

This bill was prefiled on Jan 2nd by R.G. Marshall. Just from the brief info it seems to be along the same lines as the "unauthorized reproduction" bill, that was introduced in Indiana this past October. The obvious intent is to bar unmarried women from becoming pregnant by articifial means. The bill will be offered Jan. 11th, so perhaps more detail will be available soon.