RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Senate Committee killed a bid to prevent Medicaid patients from having abortions when doctors determine the fetus has profound deformities that make survival unlikely.
But the same Republican-run committee rejected Democratic efforts to repeal new year-old laws mandating pre-abortion ultrasound exams and holding abortion clinics to standards hospitals must meet.
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