Creating a New Privacy Shield Around the Abortion Industry
2025 - Virginia House of Delegates
Conservatives Oppose
Description
This bill makes it a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to obtain, disclose, sell, or disseminate personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without a consumer's consent, insulating abortion-related activity from outside scrutiny under the guise of data privacy. CPAC believes that abortion is always a human tragedy. CPAC opposed this bill. The House passed this bill on 2025-02-14 by a vote of 52-43. The bill later became law.