Moves are afoot to provide even more protection for unborn babies in one of the most advanced states of the USA. Legislation that would specifically criminalise actions to import or distribute abortion pills in West Virginia is making its way through the state legislature, in order to stop the abortion lobby’s mail-order business from undermining the state’s preborn protections.
Senate Bill 173 would forbid abortifacient drugs or chemicals from being “sen[t] by by courier, delivery, or mail service … to a person in the state of West Virginia”; placed “into the stream of commerce”; prescribed “regardless of whether the prescriber was in the state of West Virginia”; or otherwise disseminated “without a lawfully valid prescription.”
Physicians who break the law would lose their medical licences, while non-physicians would face anywhere from three months to ten years in prison. Pregnant women themselves could not be prosecuted, but those fed abortion drugs against their will would also be able to bring civil actions against those responsible, as could her family members.