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2013 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 54.1-2974 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 54.1-2974. Sterilization operations for persons 18 years or older capable of informed consent.
It shall be lawful for any physician licensed by the Board of
Medicine to perform a vasectomy, salpingectomy, or other surgical sexual
sterilization procedure on any person eighteen 18 years of age or
older, who has the capacity to give informed consent, when so requested in
writing by such person. Prior to or at the time of such request, a full,
reasonable, and comprehensible medical explanation as to the meaning and
consequences of such an operation and as to alternative methods of
contraception shall be given by the physician to the person requesting the
operation. No such operation shall be performed prior to thirty days from
the date of the written request therefor upon a person who has not previously
become the natural or adoptive parent of a child.