The Virginia legislature's House Bill 1 would define a fertilized egg as a person and House Bill 462 will force women to submit to an invasive, transvaginal ultrasound without their consent before seeking an abortion. A personhood law like HB1 was voted down by the citizens of Mississippi last fall because the law has far-reaching ramifications affecting birth control, infertility treatments and the traumatization of women who are forced to end possibly late-stage pregnancies because of the fact that the baby has passed away inside their bodies. There is currently a petition on SignOn.org titled "Stop the War on Women" which has been signed by more than 20,000 individuals, including men and women from Virginia, who are extremely concerned about these bills.
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