{"id":302073,"date":"2023-11-24T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=302073"},"modified":"2023-11-22T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T19:37:54","slug":"virginia-democrats-pro-abortion-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/virginia-democrats-pro-abortion-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia lawmakers file constitutional amendment allowing abortion up to birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Virginia lawmakers filed a proposed constitutional amendment on Monday that would enshrine the &#8220;right&#8221; to abortion in the state&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/virginia-democrats-introduce-amendment-to-enshrine-fundamental-right-to-abortion-in-state-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a> reports that the amendment was pre-filed by Delegate Charniele Herring, a Democrat serving as the House&#8217;s new majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the campaign cycle, we told Virginians that a Democratic majority meant that abortion access would be protected,\u201d Herring <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-regional\/government-politics\/assembly-dems-first-bills-abortion-amendment-assault-weapons-ban\/article_fa9ad3c8-87d3-11ee-b423-cbe38b1b0c18.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt has become all too clear that without constitutional protection, access to reproductive health care is at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendment reads (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i>This right to make and effectuate one&#8217;s own decisions about all matters related to one&#8217;s pregnancy shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon, unless justified by a <strong>compelling state interest<\/strong> and achieved by the least restrictive means that do not infringe an individual&#8217;s autonomous decision-making. <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><strong>A state interest is compelling only when it is to ensure the protection of the health of an individual seeking care<\/strong>, consistent with accepted clinical standards of practice and evidence-based medicine. The Commonwealth shall not discriminate in the protection or enforcement of this fundamental right.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/vshl.org\/pro-abortion-democrats-push-abortion-amendment-as-their-first-goal-in-2024-general-assembly\/?fbclid=IwAR3J9BCpyPLRcPMD_MmiKLQ_XJV0g-0c4a_XF1XeT0u4JfnE_n9zeoaeF4k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warns<\/a> that should this amendment pass, it would undo many of the state&#8217;s pro-life protections, removing the parental consent law and partial-birth abortion law, while requiring taxpayers to fund abortions under Medicaid programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eR1Ut4BPbOw?si=pBr8tlI2LlXFLjYo\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It would also legalize abortion up to birth, as it does not consider the rights of the preborn child at any point in gestation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-christopher-died-killer-protected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Baby Christopher died a horrible death. His killer is protected by law.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is obvious that the new Democrat majority in Richmond has no regard for the unborn children who will be killed because of this amendment. This amendment would interpret any commonsense protective regulation, including safety rules about who may perform an abortion, as burdensome,\u201d said Olivia Gans Turner, VSHL president.<\/p>\n<p>Solidifying abortion access through constitutional amendments has become the abortion industry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-roe-state-constitutional-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-<em>Roe<\/em> strategy<\/a>. Similar efforts to undo pro-life protections and expand abortion have been seen in Ohio, California, Vermont, and Michigan \u2014 all of which have solidified the &#8220;right&#8221; to abortion in the state amendments since the overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-regional\/government-politics\/assembly-dems-first-bills-abortion-amendment-assault-weapons-ban\/article_fa9ad3c8-87d3-11ee-b423-cbe38b1b0c18.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/a>, any changes to the Virginia state constitution must first pass the state legislature in two different years, with a popular vote for the House of Delegates in between, then go before voters in a state referendum. Because the next election in the House occurs in 2025, the earliest any potential state referendum could occur is in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers will first consider the amendment when the General Assembly meets in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-283198 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia lawmakers filed a proposed constitutional amendment on Monday that would enshrine the &#8220;right&#8221; to abortion in the state&#8217;s constitution. The National Review reports that the amendment was pre-filed by Delegate Charniele Herring, a Democrat serving as the House&#8217;s new majority leader. \u201cThroughout the campaign cycle, we told Virginians that a Democratic majority meant that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":278146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Virginia lawmakers file constitutional amendment allowing abortion up to birth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The amendment would legalize abortion up to birth, as it does not consider the rights of the preborn child at any point in gestation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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