Yesterday, conservatives in the House of Delegates passed HB 1, “personhood” legislation that would grant legal rights to fertilized eggs. This bill seeks to ban safe, legal abortion in all circumstances and threatens women’s access to birth control.
Unfortunately, they didn’t stop there. Anti-women legislators also passed legislation requiring many women seeking an abortion to undergo an invasive, transvaginal ultrasound. Just in case that wasn’t extreme enough, those same legislators rejected a commonsense amendment requiring a woman’s consent before she is penetrated with a vaginal ultrasound probe.
This war on women has got to stop. We sent our representatives to Richmond to focus on making our lives better: creating jobs, improving our schools, and fixing our roads. Instead, they’ve spent their time attacking Virginia families and interfering in women’s private medical decisions. Stand up and tell your representatives to stop the conservative war on women and get back to work on our priorities.
HB 1 would make Virginia the first state in the nation to grant “personhood” status to fertilized cells. Make no mistake, this legislation is part of a concerted nationwide strategy to attack women’s rights and access to reproductive health care. We have a choice. Virginia can be a casualty of the conservative war on women or we can set an example for the nation and fight back. Stand up and tell Virginia’s legislature to stop the war on women in Virginia.
These attacks on women’s health aren’t just dangerous to continued access to safe, legal abortion. Conservatives across the country have trained their sights on cutting off women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health services, from defunding breast exams to limiting access to birth control. We can’t let them succeed here.
It’s simply really: women’s medical decisions about her body should be between her, her family and her doctor. Keep government out of it. Make your voice heard. Stand up and tell Virginia’s lawmakers to stop the war on women.SIGNAL BOOST THIS SHIT PEOPLE
Stop it, Virginia! Just stop it!
