While the area surrounding the Capitol will remain open for now, the state’s Department of General Services announced it was taking “preparatory measures” to secure Capitol Square, including installing additional protective fencing. As activists began planning more protests Friday night, Youngkin called for civility and asked Virginians to “respect the rule of law.” Some protesters began an impromptu march on Capitol Square after the rally, but Capitol Police told them they weren’t allowed to continue demonstrating on the statehouse grounds because the rally permit had expired. “I don’t want this to be the beginning of the end for women’s rights,” Sellars said. Hannah Sellars, a 29-year-old Richmond resident who attended a pro-abortion rights rally at the state Capitol a few hours after the news hit, said she had hoped the draft version of the opinion leaked in May was just a threat or a “fluke.” Seeing it become real, she said, left her “terrified.”
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But it will undoubtedly make abortion rights a top issue in a politically divided state, where Republicans won the upper hand in last year’s elections and could potentially take full control of the statehouse in 2023.ĭemocrats and abortion-rights supporters reacted to the court ruling with horror, calling it a devastating blow to a fundamental right women have had for 50 years. The ruling, which gives states new power to restrict and regulate abortion, has no immediate impact in Virginia, where abortion remains legal largely because pro-choice Democrats have controlled the governor’s mansion for most of the last decade and currently hold a narrow majority in the state Senate. The truth is, Virginians want fewer abortions, not more abortions.” “I’m proud to be a pro-life governor and plan to take every action I can to protect life. “ The Supreme Court of the United States has rightfully returned power to the people and their elected representatives in the states,” Youngkin said in a statement released roughly an hour after the court handed down the seismic ruling that overturned the landmark Roe v. Supreme Court decision abolishing the constitutional right to an abortion and said Virginia Republicans will get to work on legislation “protecting the life of unborn children” by potentially banning most abortions after 15 weeks.
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