This week the Virginia Senate voted to kill three bills that provided women with more information when making decisions about their pregnancy and also shockingly rejected a bill that would provide reasonable medical care to the born alive baby who survived an abortion attempt. None of these bills prevented any woman from obtaining an abortion. The House of Delegates passed all three bills before crossover. These rational and compassionate bills ...
Read More
Today, during the second annual “Defending Life Day” advocacy event at the Virginia General Assembly, more than 500 pro-lifers from across the Commonwealth met with legislators to speak up for the unborn and ask their Delegates and Senators to support the protective bills still working their way through the House of Delegates. Pro-life bills face a hostile environment in the Virginia Senate. where Sen. Louise Lucas (D-18) has bragged about ...
Read More
Today, in a split vote of 20-20, with the lieutenant governor breaking the tie, the Virginia Senate passed SB 733. This legislation will overturn reasonable protective legislation that Virginia first passed in 2001 to protect women and their unborn babies from abortion. The U.S Supreme Court has found that such laws are constitutional. “Pro-abortion Democrats in the General Assembly have stripped the law books of legislation that was designed to protect women and give them ...
Read More