Team,

Fifty-five years ago today, the Supreme Court handed a landmark civil rights decision in Loving v. Virginia, granting Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, the right to marry. Thus we celebrate Loving Day every June 12. It’s a fitting name, isn’t it? Let’s keep loving in Virginia and throughout the United States.

The Loving decision has touched every corner of the country; the landmark decision that permitted interracial marriage also paved the way for same-sex marriage. 

A sober reality of this year’s Loving Day celebration is that the right to privacy found within the Fourteenth Amendment, on which the Loving case, Roe v Wade, Obergefell v Hodges, and many other essential civil rights acts are so critically based, is in peril.

Should the court decide to overturn Roe v. Wade, as it has signaled it will do, and return the rights to privacy to the judgment of individual states, states may be positioned to take action to violate the rights we have fought for, including marriage equality. 

We have to ensure that Democrats hold our majority in the Virginia Senate and regain majority in our House of Delegates. Too much is at stake. Can you help support our work to build a loving, accepting, and inclusive future by making a contribution to my campaign now?

It is our democratic duty to work to protect these rights and ensure they always remain the law of the land. Join me in defending our rights by making a donation to my campaign.

Onward, with love.

Senator Ghazala Hashmi

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