With a new Democratic majority on a House of Delegates subcommittee where gun control bills used to die, an assault weapons ban got a thumbs up – the day after a control measure never seen before in Virginia dropped.
what other protections are we seeing at the grass roots level? i think it s important to note despite the efforts of people like delegate helmer there isn t a political will among democrats in virginia to codify roe v. wade. as much as the supreme court seems poised to do something very drastic this is not a crisis that s emerged overnight. republicans have for decades been attacking reproductive freedom any possible way they can. and at least according to the new york times the leadership of the democrats in virginia would prefer to go on vacation rather than spend political capital on this issue. republicans work overtime to block people from accessing abortion. so the real question right now is when democrats can no longer count on the federal courts to make sure that there s legal production for reproductive freedom, will they then step up? and that s happened in some
tonight democrats in the state legislature are working to change that before republicans take control of the statehouse and republican governor elect glenn youngkin is sworn in the second week of january. one of those democrats is our next guest, virginia house of delegates member dan helmer. delegate helmer, thank you for coming to the last word. what are virginia democrats doing to protect legal abortion in the commonwealth? jonathan, first of all, it s worth noting the incredible progress we ve made in virginia these past two years. removing restrictions on the ability of virginia women to make their own health care decisions. but with time running out and with the supreme court being on the path to overturning roe, we have a last chance over the next few days to make sure we enshrine in our law the right of a woman to access abortion services to make sure that our incoming governor-elect, our incoming speaker designate are unable to restrict the ability of women to terminate th
pass protections on abortion. what other protections are we seeing at the grass roots level? i think it s important to note despite the efforts of people like delegate helmer there isn t a political will among democrats in virginia to codify roe v. wade. as much as the supreme court seems poised to do something very drastic this is not a crisis that s emerged overnight. republicans have for decades been attacking reproductive freedom any possible way they can. and at least according to the new york times the leadership of the democrats in virginia would prefer to go on vacation rather than spend political capital on this issue. republicans work overtime to block people from accessing abortion. so the real question right now is when democrats can no longer count on the federal courts to make sure that there s legal production for reproductive freedom, will they then step up? and that s happened in some
glenn youngkin is sworn in the second week of january. one of those democrats is our next guest, virginia house of delegates member dan helmer. delegate helmer, thank you for coming to the last word. what are virginia democrats doing to protect legal abortion in the commonwealth? jonathan, first of all, it s worth noting the incredible progress we ve made in virginia these past two years. removing restrictions on the ability of virginia women to make their own health care decisions. but with time running out and with the supreme court being on the path to overturning roe, we have a last chance over the next few days to make sure we enshrine in our law the right of a woman to access abortion services to make sure that our incoming governor-elect, our incoming speaker designate are unable to restrict the ability of women to terminate their own pregnancy.