{"id":5261,"date":"2014-03-20T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T03:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:22:23","slug":"virginia-enacts-protection-of-conscience-provision-for-genetic-counsellors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"Virginia enacts protection of conscience provision for genetic counsellors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0Governor&#8217;s attempt to force referral overridden by Senate<\/h2>\n<p>A bill concerning the regulation of genetic counselling in Virginia has been enacted with the original protection of conscience provision intact.\u00a0 Identical versions of the bill had been passed unanimously by the Virginia House and Senate, but Governor Terry McAuliffe, apparently in response to lobbying from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood, attempted to insert a <a href=\"http:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+amd+SB330AG\">mandatory referral provision<\/a> into the bill.\u00a0 This was rejected by the Senate.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/laws\/usa-virginia.aspx#re-genetic-counselling\"> The law<\/a> now requires an objecting counsellor to offer &#8220;to direct the patient to the online directory of licensed genetic counselors maintained by the Board.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/familyfoundation.org\/2014\/03\/senate-votes-today-on-conscience-protection\/\">Family Foundation<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Governor&#8217;s attempt to force referral overridden by Senate A bill concerning the regulation of genetic counselling in Virginia has been enacted with the original protection of conscience provision intact.\u00a0 Identical versions of the bill had been passed unanimously by the Virginia House and Senate, but Governor Terry McAuliffe, apparently in response to lobbying from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virginia enacts protection of conscience provision for genetic counsellors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3699,9,28],"tags":[62,1358,278,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protection-of-conscience-laws","category-eugenics-genetics","category-news","category-usa","tag-american-civil-liberties-union-aclu","tag-genetic-counselling","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Virginia enacts protection of conscience provision for genetic counsellors - 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