Team,
Recently, lawmakers in Virginia reconvened to consider bills that Governor Youngkin returned with his proposed changes.
After Governor Youngkin moved to completely gut legislation to protect contraception, pro-abortion rights candidates fought back and reinstated the bill's original language. It is now heading back to the Governor for his signature.
As a reminder, this Act would protect the right of people to use and doctors to prescribe contraception, including birth control pills, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, and more. Passing this bill as-is should be a no-brainer, and we are flabbergasted that access to birth control is still up for debate.
And here’s the thing: a similar bill to protect contraception access – known as the Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act – was introduced by Republican women legislators in Tennessee and is heading to their Republican Governor to sign into law. Yet, Governor Youngkin, as well as the GOP frontrunner running for Governor this November, Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, is standing in the way of this bill passing in Virginia.
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