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Oct 31, 2023 · If such a ban were to take effect in Virginia, many abortion clinics outside the state would likely feel the effects. In the year after Roe’s demise, the rate of abortions in Virginia surged ...
- Carter Sherman
Jun 27, 2022 · The Supreme Court ruling sends the power back to the states to determine whether abortion access will be available. Virginia Gov. Glen Youngkin has called for a law to ban most abortions after 15 ...
- Megan Rivers
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Feb 8, 2024 · Updated 1:40 PM PDT, February 8, 2024. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates — controlled by Democrats who flipped the chamber in November after campaigning on abortion rights — decisively voted down a bill that would have instituted a near-total abortion ban. On a bipartisan 8-0 vote Wednesday night, a House ...
Feb 7, 2022 · The only anti-abortion bill that is still up for possible debate is SB710 (20-week abortion ban). This bill received a partisan, tied 4-4 vote in the Senate Education and Health’s Health Professions subcommittee on Friday morning, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia will work to defeat in full Senate and Education where Democrats ...
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- Post-Roe Prohibitions
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Virginia law generally prohibits abortion after viability, unless performed by a licensed physician in a licensed hospital with three physicians certifying that the continuation of the pregnancy will result in death of the pregnant person or impair their mental or physical health.VA. CODE ANN. §§ 18.2-71, 18.2-74 It also prohibits the D&X method of...
Virginia law does not include express constitutional or statutory protections for abortion. To the contrary, in 2017, Virginia enacted House Resolution 268 indicating its policy preference to ban abortion to the fullest by designating January 22 as the “Day of Tears” in the state to mourn the anniversary of Roe.H.R. 268, 2017 Gen. Assemb., Reg. Ses...
Virginia repealed its pre-Roe ban in 1975.VA. CODE ANN. §18.1-62 et seq. (1971), repealed by 1975 Va. Acts 18, ch. 14, §1, ch. 15, §1. Text of the restriction found in note 1, see Russo v. Commonwealth, 207 Va. 251, 252, 148 S.E.2d 820, … Continue reading
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe,abortion will remain accessible in Virginia, but without legal protection. In 2020, Virginia repealed numerous medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion access.
Nov 6, 2023 · Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 6, 2023 / 16:15 pm. Virginia’s state legislative elections on Tuesday, Nov. 7, could determine the fate of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposal to prohibit abortions ...
Jan 26, 2023 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — In a series of key votes Thursday, Virginia Senate Democrats defeated several bills that would have restricted abortion access in the state, including a proposed 15-week ban with exceptions that was a priority for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. They are the first decisive legislative votes in Virginia since the Supreme ...
