Pro-Life Groups: Roe Decision Only Half the Battle
Pro-life groups will take activism to states after Roe V. Wade overturned
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Pro-life groups will take activism to states after Roe V. Wade overturned
Friday's decision now sends the issue of abortion back to state legislatures. Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday that he will seek to ban most abortions after 15 weeks.
If and when the Supreme Court follows through on a draft opinion reversing a landmark abortion-rights decision, Virginia’s relatively lax regulations on abortion would be the final word on the matter in the state, at least for the time being.
State legislators did not advance a Virginia House bill that advocates said would have provided more information to women seeking an abortion and which opponents saw as politicized and unnecessary.