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Virginia Democrats split over last-minute plan to shore up abortion rights
brooklynite posted about this Friday in LBN.
Fri Dec 17, 2021: Protect Abortion Rights? Virginia Democrats' Vacation Plans Get in the Way.
Virginia Politics
Virginia Democrats split over last-minute plan to shore up abortion rights
House speaker Del. Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) exits the center isle of the empty Virginia House of Delegates chamber after a Zoom Legislative session at the Capitol in Richmond on Feb. 10, 2021. (Steve Helber/AP)
By Laura Vozzella
Yesterday at 4:34 p.m. EST
Virginia Democrats are divided over whether to make an 11th-hour push to strengthen abortion rights in the state as they prepare to hand over control of the Executive Mansion and state House to Republicans. ... Abortion rights activists and some House Democrats are calling for the General Assembly to gather in special session before Republicans assume the majority in the House of Delegates on Jan. 12 and Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) takes office three days later.
[Virginia Republicans rise from the ashes while Democrats ponder what went wrong]
Their goal is to codify Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, in state law. ... “Let’s make it happen. We owe it to Virginia women!” Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) tweeted Friday along with a warning that Youngkin and the high court “cannot be trusted to protect the right to an abortion.”
Democratic leaders of the House of Delegates and state Senate have the power to call lawmakers back to Richmond with 48 hours notice because the General Assembly never formally adjourned a summertime special session called to allocate federal coronavirus funding and elect judges. ... House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) has said she is willing to call her chamber back. But Senate Democrats have resisted what they see as a futile effort.
They see the tight time frame, narrowness of the Senate majority and existence of one antiabortion Democrat in that chamber as obstacles, particularly given that some Democrats will be out of the state or country on long-planned vacations over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. ... Even some activists who had been pushing for the session acknowledged over the weekend that the window for action was quickly closing.
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By Laura Vozzella
Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she was a political columnist and food writer at the Baltimore Sun, and she has also worked for the Associated Press, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Hartford Courant. Twitter https://twitter.com/LVozzella
Virginia Democrats split over last-minute plan to shore up abortion rights
House speaker Del. Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) exits the center isle of the empty Virginia House of Delegates chamber after a Zoom Legislative session at the Capitol in Richmond on Feb. 10, 2021. (Steve Helber/AP)
By Laura Vozzella
Yesterday at 4:34 p.m. EST
Virginia Democrats are divided over whether to make an 11th-hour push to strengthen abortion rights in the state as they prepare to hand over control of the Executive Mansion and state House to Republicans. ... Abortion rights activists and some House Democrats are calling for the General Assembly to gather in special session before Republicans assume the majority in the House of Delegates on Jan. 12 and Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) takes office three days later.
[Virginia Republicans rise from the ashes while Democrats ponder what went wrong]
Their goal is to codify Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, in state law. ... “Let’s make it happen. We owe it to Virginia women!” Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) tweeted Friday along with a warning that Youngkin and the high court “cannot be trusted to protect the right to an abortion.”
Democratic leaders of the House of Delegates and state Senate have the power to call lawmakers back to Richmond with 48 hours notice because the General Assembly never formally adjourned a summertime special session called to allocate federal coronavirus funding and elect judges. ... House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) has said she is willing to call her chamber back. But Senate Democrats have resisted what they see as a futile effort.
They see the tight time frame, narrowness of the Senate majority and existence of one antiabortion Democrat in that chamber as obstacles, particularly given that some Democrats will be out of the state or country on long-planned vacations over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. ... Even some activists who had been pushing for the session acknowledged over the weekend that the window for action was quickly closing.
{snip}
By Laura Vozzella
Laura Vozzella covers Virginia politics for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she was a political columnist and food writer at the Baltimore Sun, and she has also worked for the Associated Press, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Hartford Courant. Twitter https://twitter.com/LVozzella
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