Respecting Virginia women

May 11, 2012

The Washington Times reports, "Pro-choice activists in Virginia have begun a last-ditch campaign to undo restrictive regulations governing abortion clinics ahead of a required vote by the state's Board of Health to make the rules permanent. Opponents on Thursday lobbied board members, the governor, the attorney general, the state's health commissioner and its health and human resources secretary, urging them to reject the "extreme targeted regulations on abortion providers."

Progressive Point: Politicians should respect Virginia women and their private medical decisions. But after attempting to force women to undergo invasive, transvaginal ultrasounds, conservatives are now trying to permanently institute extreme regulations of abortion providers to end a woman's right to choose.

All women deserve respect. But Virginia women's private medical decisions are being threatened by ideology and politicians trying to play doctor. Our government has no place interfering with private medical decisions that should be between a woman, her family, and her faith. Virginia's women deserve respect and need our state officials to put our interests above their ideology.

Get the Facts:

• "Last spring, state legislators passed a law that allowed for the promulgation of temporary abortion regulations. These regulations single out women's health centers as part of an unprecedented political campaign to undermine women's access to safe, legal reproductive health care services." (Virginia Coalition to Protect Women's Health)


• "Voters say 72 - 21 percent that government should not make laws which try to convince women seeking an abortion to change their minds." The majority of Virginia voters also preferred the old law that limited people to one handgun purchase a month. (Quinnipiac poll)


• "Out of 140 total members of the General Assembly, only 51 of them received 100% pro-choice ratings this year: 19 out of 40 Senators and 32 out of 100 Delegates. 16 Senators and 61 Delegates earned a 0% anti-choice rating." (2012 Legislative Scorecard, NARAL Virginia)

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