Republicans strategized on repealing the Virginia Clean Economy Act during their Advance
Virginia Democrats respond to reports that SCOTUS will overrule Roe v. Wade
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Virginia Democrats respond to reports that SCOTUS will overrule Roe v. Wade
Republicans strategized on repealing the Virginia Clean Economy Act at their advance
A Republican candidate in Virginia’s tenth congressional district signed the Woman’s Bill of Rights recently - a document that would legally define men and women by their biological sex at birth.
There are reports that Roe v. Wade will be overturned and Virginia politicians responded
Politico broke the news Monday night that the United State Supreme Court is planning to overturn Roe v. Wade on Tuesday giving the power to individual states to legislate abortion.
The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” - Politico
Lashrecse Aird, Democratic candidate for Virginia Senate District 13, released the following statement on the draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade:
“Since it was decided in 1973, Roe has been under constant attack. I never thought in my lifetime that we would live in a world without Roe and the fundamental right to choose. I join so many throughout Virginia and our country in feeling devastated by what this tremorous change in American law can mean. Today my heart aches at the possibility that our access to safe and legal abortion now hangs in the balance. This is about all of us and if this opinion is a reality, my candidacy to the Virginia Senate, challenging an anti-choice democrat just became more dire than ever. This race single- handedly is now the difference between protecting Virginia’s progress in expanding reproductive freedom and not. Abortion access in America is offically in crisis and I will not sit idly by. With every fiber of my being I will fight to make sure all Virginians have access to reproductive health care regardless of their gender, income, race, where they live, their health insurance status, immigration status, disability, or sexual orientation.”
