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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.
Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL), a nonprofit organization advocating an end to abortion in Virginia; it is the oldest anti-abortion organization in the US. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Family Foundation of Virginia , a lobbying organization focused originally on opposition to sex education that has expanded to opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage ...
Jane Collective, an underground abortion provider based in Chicago; Maine Women's Lobby, dedicated to legislative action on behalf of women and girls in Maine; West Coast offensive, a coalition of California, Oregon, and Washington to expand abortion access and refuse to extradite individuals to other states who receive or aide in abortion ...
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.
And in Virginia, the state’s Republican governor is rallying his party around a 15-week abortion ban, and encouraging a perception of the state House of Delegates and Senate as either a green ...
Democrat Russet Perry has knocked on thousands of doors in a swing district outside the nation's capital as she campaigns for a seat that could decide control of the Virginia state Senate in November.
Pages in category "Abortion in Virginia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws, setting up the state as a destination for women ...