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1 day ago · The Chamber of Commerce polled 600 prospective West Virginia voters in 2022, after Roe fell but before the state passed its abortion ban. Respondents were surprisingly evenly split: 51% called ...
Oct 12, 2022 · By John Raby. Published 8:43 AM PDT, October 12, 2022. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — After West Virginia’s Republican supermajority Legislature approved an abortion ban, the new leaders of the state Democratic Party urged voters to take their anger to the polls.
3 days ago · When the Dobbs decision prevailed, West Virginia’s state legislature acted quickly to make abortion illegal with very few exceptions. The story in neighboring Maryland was different. Sensing that Roe was in danger, Maryland state legislators introduced a number of bills in early 2022 to protect abortion rights. One bill that passed will be up ...
3 days ago · After leaving a so-called 'abortion desert,' this doctor worries about what's next Anne Banfield left West Virginia in early 2022 and is now an OB-GYN in Maryland. As the 2024 election...
2 days ago · Published May 28, 2024 at 6:38 AM EDT. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in 2022, states have had the final say on abortion rights. And now abortion-rights ...
Sep 16, 2022 · West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed a bill that bans nearly all abortions in the state, days after legislators approved the ban. This makes West Virginia the second state to pass an abortion ban after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
The Nov. 2 midterm elections are in less than two months. Since the shameful Dobbs decision was issued, we have seen abortion rights catalyze voters in otherwise deeply pro-Trump states like Kansas. Forced-birth extremists in West Virginia were too afraid to put this question to voters in a post-Roe environment.
