Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade and sent abortion law back to states where it should always have been, Governor Youngkin would like a new law passed in Virginia that would ban abortion after 15 weeks, but he realizes that may not be possible in the current divided General Assembly. The current law in Virginia bans abortion after 25 weeks.
The governor has asked 4 pro-life legislators in Richmond to write a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks, rather than 15 weeks because he thinks 20 weeks may be more viable in the Democrat-controlled Senate. The 4 legislators are Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (Henrico), an obstetrician; Sen. Steve Newman (Bedford); Del. Kathy Byron (Lynchburg) and Del. Margaret Ransone (R-Westmoreland). (The law could be changed again when Republicans take over the state Senate after next year’s election. They already control the House of Delegates.) The Governor supports exemptions in the cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is endangered.
From the Washingtonpost.com:
“Virginians do want fewer abortions as opposed to more abortions,” Youngkin said Friday morning during a meeting with reporters, editors and editorial writers at The Washington Post, moments after the court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade was announced. “I am not someone who is going to jump in and try to push us apart … There is a place we can come together.”
Though he emphasized his personal opposition to abortion, Youngkin said he recognized that there is a spectrum of beliefs in Virginia and acknowledged that 20 weeks could wind up being a point of compromise. “I also represent all Virginians,” he said. But, he added, “I believe the place we should be able to get to is a 15-week pain threshold.”
Similar laws have been passed in Florida and Mississippi.
More from the Washington Post:
““We’ve got a process in Virginia to work through,” Youngkin said. “I am a pro-life governor, I also am very, very aware of Virginia. … A governor can’t do it on his own. And it’s going to require … work across the aisle. And so we’ve got to work over the next few months to find a place that we can land.”
He compared that political reality to his efforts to pass a gas tax holiday, which has been repeatedly rebuffed by the state Senate. “I believe we should have a three-month gas tax holiday. And I can’t get the Senate to do it. And bottom line is that one of the things that I firmly believe that government needs to do is deliver results and I gotta deliver results,” Youngkin said.”
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Gov. Youngkin’s push to ban abortion at 15 weeks WILL DO NOTHING. NOTHING. ZERO.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 1.7% of abortions in Virginia occur AFTER 20 WEEKS. Which means 98.3% of abortions in Virginia take place BEFORE 20 WEEKS. Thus, Youngkin’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks will change nothing — almost 100% of the abortions in Virginia will still be legal.
Of course, Youngkin will thump his chest and tell us how he has saved thousands of lives. And the low-intelligence crowd at TBE will believe him and lap it up.
Youngkin needs to send out the police with a potential call for the National Guard to protect the Justices who live in Virginia. There will be NO bullcrap in their neighorhoods… There has already been someone with the intention of harming a Justice and or their families. There is a clear danger of harm to them. Plus the people in their neighorhoods have a right not to have 24 hour circuses robbing them of their right to their property. If you want to protest. Get a permit and have a protest in a city square. It is your right… but it is not your right to send out Anti Fa to their neighborhoods… I suspect that Anti Fa won’t be called out… it isn’t good for Bribem…Those goons are called off by Soros in Democrat Admins… He and his billionaire ilk own those corrupt clowns. I doubt blacks will riot… it isn’t really their issue. It is more liberal white baby boomer women… but these are rough days in this collapsing country.
So, Edgar, in the Conservative world, can a liberal carry in a justice’s neighborhood?
Erica… a liberal can Go F itself in a conservatives world girl. And you wouldn’t know which end of a gun to carry. A hand bag, yes…
So… that’s a “nope!”… unsurprising…
That is a right in the Bill of Rights. However, if the gun is used to harass, threaten or commit violence against a justice, or for that matter, any innocent, then deadly force to protect oneself is not appropriate but supported by the law. This isn’t the Trudeau tyranny.
I’ll bet if a liberal open carries in Thomas’ neighborhood they would be put in shackles or gunned down in a blink of an eye and you will be cheering. You are a Conservative hypocrite (but I repeat myself).
The “my body, my choice” abortion on demand activist conveniently ignore the military draft and the COVID mandates. Frankly, many of them laud the government and woke corporations for those mandates. Bunch of socialist hypocrites.
Be prepared to combat the violent left.