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Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday’s legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power. The outcome ...
Terence Richard McAuliffe (born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 72nd governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. [1] A member of the Democratic Party, he was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, [2] co-chairman of the 1997 Presidential Inaugural Committee, [3] chairman of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, [4 ...
During her tenure as First Lady, Northam expanded the historical tour and educational programs at the Virginia Governor's Mansion to tell the full history of the enslaved African Americans who worked in the home's history. [15] In the same year, she also served as a member of the Host Committee for the Virginia Women Veterans Summit. [16]
Tuesday’s legislative elections in Virginia will impact America’s abortion debate, its broader political fight for supremacy in the suburbs and the ambitions of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Riggins, a 36-year-old government administrator who has had an abortion, said preserving reproductive rights was top of mind for her as she considers voting in the state's Nov. 7 election. A year ...
The bill, which passed the House by a large margin and passed the Senate after a tiebreaker vote from Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, contributed to the closure of three of the state's 21 abortion clinics between its enactment in 2011 and the Virginia Board of Health's 2015 vote to end the hospital-style regulations for abortion clinics. [5] [6]
Virginia's GOP is campaigning on a 15-week limit on abortion and painting Democrats as the party of "no limits" after a year of abortion-related election losses.
Abortion in the U.S. state of Virginia is legal up to the end of the second trimester of a pregnancy. [1] Before the year 1900, abortion remained largely illegal in Virginia, reflecting a widespread trend in many U.S. states during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abortion was viewed as a criminal act and subject to state laws that prohibited it.