The Virginia Women’s Equality Coalition meets with Delegate David Yancey (R-Newport News) to discuss common sense legislation on a woman access to a 12 month supply of oral contraceptives–citing the 2011 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that dispensing a twelve-month supply of oral contraceptives reduces the likelihood of unintended […]
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Virginia Women’s Equality Coalition Lobby Day
Couldn’t make it? We got you covered.
Yesterday, the Virginia Women’s Equality Coalition kept the momentum of the Women’s March going all the way to the Virginia General Assembly. Progress Virginia Executive Director, Anna Scholl, NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Executive Director Tarina Keene and Virginia Lt. Governor Ralph Northam kick off at Virginia Women’s Equality Coalition Lobby Day. The Virgina Women’s Equality Coalition promotes women’s […]
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Virginia advocates and volunteers prepare to speak to lawmakers.
Advocates and volunteers from all over the Commonwealth break out into teams to discuss the delegates and issues they will be meeting and speaking to lawmakers. Some of the bills they lobbied for support the Whole Woman’s Health Act, which says a woman has a fundamental right to access an abortion and no restrictions should be placed on this right, […]
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Betsy DeVos.
Bad for…Everything.
Betsy DeVos is “President” Trump’s nomination for Secretary of Education. She is not the right pick for American students. Let me tell you why. Guns in Schools DeVos refused to commit to making schools #GunFreeZones. I’m sorry, a Wyoming school DeVos plead to allow guns to protect children from grizzly bears doesn’t have a gun. […]
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Eyes on Richmond
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The Culture of Abortion
How Jane the Virgin tackles generational views on abortion
As a woman, I am always concerned when my reproductive rights are in danger of being taken. As a Latina, I find myself twice as frustrated. Because not only am I fighting the government but my heritage as well. It’s a complicated thing. As a Latina, millennial, liberal woman I view the world much differently […]
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Trust. Women. Easy to say and impossible for politicians to do.
This week Delegate Ben Cline proposed a “Day of Tears” on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, declaring that it’s now the government’s job to publicly shame women. Luckily, there are a few pieces of legislation are up for debate in the Virginia General Assembly that put women in charge of their own bodies. These […]
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2017 has already started
Friday afternoon we learned the Virginia Governor’s Association dropped $5 million dollars in our commonwealth–the largest political contribution in the history of our state. The money is meant as a “marker”: a public indication of how much they’re willing to spend to put a conservative in the Governor’s mansion this November. It’s January. That $5M […]
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A dozen+ restrictions
Since 2010, the Virginia General Assembly has proposed over 75 restrictions on reproductive health care. [ms_button style=”normal” link=”http://abortionrestrictions.org” size=”medium” shape=”rounded” shadow=”yes” block=”no” target=”_blank” gradient=”no” color=”#1caada” text_color=”#f5ebc9″ icon=”” icon_animation_type=”” border_width=”0″ class=”” id=””]Get the facts.[/ms_button]