                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FUNDING OF CERTAIN ABORTIONS WHERE FETUS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE INCAPACITATING
PHYSICAL DEFORMITY OR MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PHYSICIAN&#8217;S CERTIFICATE (§
32.1-92.2)

From the moneys appropriated to the Department from the general fund, the Board
shall fund abortions for women who otherwise meet the financial eligibility
criteria of the State Medical Assistance Plan in any case in which a physician
who is trained and qualified to perform such tests certifies in writing, after
appropriate tests have been performed, that he believes the fetus will be born
with a gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or with a gross and
totally incapacitating mental deficiency.

HISTORY: 1982, c. 645.