By a Wide Margin, Virginians Support Roe v Wade; Republicans, on the Other Hand, Are Jubilant at Its Imminent Demise

See below for reactions by Virginia Republicans to the blockbuster news about the Supreme Court apparently on the verge of ditching Roe v Wade and trashing women’s reproductive rights – and many more of our rights, ultimately.  In short, while most Virginians support Roe v Wade (“Virginia voters agree 66 – 27 percent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision and support 58 – 31 percent abortion in the third trimester if a doctor determines the mother’s health is at risk.”), Virginia Republicans are jubilant at its apparently imminent demise.

First, here’s fascistic, bats***-crazy Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05)’s completely unhinged,  “Handmaid’s Tale”-style reaction to the news about Roe v Wade. According to Good, the Roe v Wade decision supposedly caused “horrific carnage & destruction to innocent life” and supposedly reflected “the Democrat [sic] Left’s relentless 60-year assault on our Constitution, our founding Judeo-Christian principles, the traditional family and religious freedom.” Note, by the way, that Roe v Wade was a 7-2 decision by Richard Nixon appointee Justice Harry Blackmun, with concurrences by President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointee Justice Potter Stewart, Eisenhower appointee Justice William Brennan, Nixon appointee Justice Lewis Powell…

• Here’s VA07 Republican candidate Yesli Vega arguing that this is a “historic moment in the making,” an “amazing victory in the fight for the life and Liberty of our most vulnerable, the unborn.”

• And here’s VA07 Republican candidate Crystal Vanuch arguing that this is “massive news,” and stressing that she is “100% pro-life and an unapologetic champion of the unborn.”

• Here’s VA05 Republican candidate Dan Moy, writing that “this is a huge moment for the sanctity of life in America” and “applaud[ing] the conservative justices for their courage in this decision.”

• Here’s VA10 Republican frontrunner Jeanine Lawson “praying that the news is true,” adding that “this is something I’ve been working for most of my adult life.”