Kathy Tran Bio

Kathy Tran born 1978 is an American politician and the current in the Virginia House of Delegates. Tran who is a Democrat, has represented the 42nd House of Delegates district since 2018. She proposed a bill in the Virginia legislature known as the Repeal Act that would allow abortions up to the time of birth, on January 28, 2019. After knowledge of this proposed legislation went viral, she deleted her Facebook and Twitter accounts. 

Kathy Tran Age

Born in 1978, Kathy is 41 years old as of 2019

Kathy Tran Husband

She is married to Matthew Reisman.

Kathy Tran Education

She graduated with a BA in History, from the Duke University where she studied at from 1996 to 2000. Later in 2001, she joined University of Michigan where she graduated from with MA, Social Work in 2003.

Kathy Tran Virginia Delegate – Kathy Tran Springfield Va – Kathy Tran Office

In 2017 she decided to run for the House after the election of Donald Trump. She ran in the 42nd district, which was an open seat after Dave Albo Republican Delegate announced his retirement. In the June 2017 Democratic primary she faced retired social worker Tilly Blanding and won with 54 percent of the vote.

Later she faced Republican Lolita Mancheno-Smoak, an engineer and Ecuadoran immigrant, in the general election. After the Democratic Party of Virginia sent a racially charged mailer to voters depicting Mancheno-Smoak’s face next to images of a werewolf and a hockey mask reminiscent of a horror movie with the headline, “This Halloween season, protect your family from the scariest threats,” republicans accused Democrats of smearing Mancheno-Smoak. However, Tran denied that the mailer was racist, saying, “The mailer highlights the frankly scary policies that my opponent supports that would threaten funding for schools, threaten access to affordable health care, and threaten funding for Planned Parenthood. This is what is at stake in our election.” Tran won the election, defeating Mancheno-Smoak in the general election, receiving 61% of the vote.

Kathy and Kelly Fowler were the first Asian-American women to be elected to Virginia’s House of Delegates in November 2017. Kathy is the first Vietnamese American elected official on any level in the Commonwealth.

Currently she serves on the Privileges and Elections and the Science and Technology committees in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Kathy Tran Bill

On 1st January 2019 legislative session, Tran introduced a bill that would allow late-term abortions through the end of the third trimester.

The bill sets to remove numerous restrictions on second and third trimester abortions. According to the official legislative summary for the bill, it:

“Eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital. The bill eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman’s informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill does not change the requirement that a woman’s informed written consent be first obtained. The bill eliminates the requirement that two other physicians certify that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman’s death or impairment of her mental or physical health, as well as the need to find that any such impairment to the woman’s health would be substantial and irremediable. The bill also removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.”

The bill was then referred to a House subcommittee where Tran testified on January 28, 2019. During questions with a subcommittee member, when asked if the bill would allow abortions “to the end of the third trimester,” Tran replied, “Yes. I don’t think we have a limit in the bill.” When asked if abortions would be allowed “where it’s obvious that a woman is about to give birth…[when] she’s dilating?”, Tran said, “My bill would allow that, yes.” After video of Tran’s testimony circulated on social media, her Twitter and Facebook accounts were deleted.

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Kathy Tran Linkedin

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Kathy Tran Instagram

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Kathy Tran Facebook

She deleted her face book account .

Kathy Tran News

VIRGINIA DEL. KATHY TRAN SUBMITTED BILL TO SAVE CATERPILLARS ON SAME DAY AS LATE-STAGE ABORTION BILL

Source: dailycaller.com

The Democratic Virginia delegate who has recently come under fire for sponsoring a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow the termination of a pregnancy up to 40 weeks old, is also the chief patron of a bill that would protect the lives of “fall cankerworms” during certain months.

Democratic Virginia Del. Kathy Tran introduced “House Bill No. 2495 – Fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months” on Jan. 9, the same day as “House Bill No. 2491 — Abortion; eliminate certain requirements.”

Tran came under fire Tuesday for her support of legislation that would allow an abortion to be performed just moments before the birth of a child.
“Where it’s obvious a woman is about to give birth…would that be a point at which she could still request an abortion?” Republican Del. Todd Gilbert asked Tran.

“My bill would allow that, yes,” she confirmed.

Tran’s other piece of legislation aims to protect insects such as “gypsy moths” and “cankerworms.”

According to Virginia’s Legislative Information System, House Bill No. 2495 is:

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2403 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-926.4, relating to cankerworms; eradication; prohibition on spraying during certain months.

Tran apparently deleted all of her social media following backlash to her abortion bill.

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam attempted to defend Tran’s bill in a radio appearance Wednesday morning, but created a firestorm when he implied that he supported born-alive abortions.

“If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,” Northam said.