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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Professional_Suit270 on 2023-09-22 20:28:33.
Original Title: WOMEN OF VIRGINIA: Get ready to VOTE! Every seat on the state legislature is up for grabs on November 7, and early voting begins TODAY! Republicans are moving to ban abortion statewide if they win, so vote to protect women’s reproductive health!
News on early voting getting underway:
Republicans already control the Governorship, and that position will NOT be up for grabs, but the entire state legislature will, where Democrats have a narrow majority in the State Senate and Republicans have the smallest possible majority in the State House.
Governor Youngkin aka Trumpkin has previously discussed his desire to curtail abortion access in the state . Abortion is currently legal in Virginia through the first and second trimester, and the state is the only major one in the South and Southeast to have widespread access other than Florida, where their Governor Ron DeSantis is in court trying to enforce a 6-week ban. As such it is a crucial destination for women’s medical and reproductive care in the region.
Youngkin is trying to pivot on the issue, and is running on a “common ground compromise” of 15 weeks with exceptions. But we’ve seen in almost every Republican state that has restricted abortion how the exceptions, especially for saving the mother’s life, were so vague and unreadable that doctors were scared to perform their jobs in fear of Republicans prosecuting them for the woman not being near death enough to qualify it as a threat to her life.
We’ve also seen in less rural states under Republican control how they ran on “common sense compromise” abortion legislation to get elected, only to then turn around and try to ban it entirely less than a year later. In Florida in 2022, Republicans instituted a 15-week ban with exceptions just as Youngkin proposes in Virginia. As with other Republican states, the exceptions were poorly worded and didn’t protect anyone, leading to this . Republicans then won the next election and less than ONE YEAR later, that 15-week “common ground compromise” became a 6-week abortion ban WITH abortion pill restrictions . Which they are now trying to enforce in court.
Don’t let Virginia be the next state to befall this fate. Get out and vote to protect your reproductive rights!