From DPVA:
Ahead of the Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, Remember Winsome Earle-Sears Has an Extreme Record Attacking Reproductive Rights
Sears voted against the Right to Contraception Act leaving the door open to extreme restrictions on contraception and birth control in Virginia
VIRGINIA – Ahead of the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which protected access to contraception, remember that Winsome Earle-Sears has an extreme record opposing protections for contraception and birth control and attacking reproductive rights. Sears voted against the Right to Contraception Act and left a handwritten note that said she is “morally opposed” to the constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive freedom in Virginia, including contraception, abortion, and IVF.
“Winsome Earle-Sears has a dangerous and extreme record on reproductive rights from voting against the Right to Contraception Act to supporting a near-total abortion ban. Sears owes answers to Virginia women on why she wants politicians to make decisions for women about their own bodies,” said DPVA Spokesperson Maggie Amjad.
Read about Sears’ Dangerous Record on Reproductive Rights:
- Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against this legislation to guarantee Virginia women’s access to contraception.
- Sears admitted she would not sign the Right to Contraception Act into law saying “[…] This legislation is more about pushing a political agenda […].”
- Sears left a handwritten note that she is “morally opposed to this bill […]” on the constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive freedom in Virginia, including contraception, abortion, and IVF.
- In multiple interviews, Sears has made clear her support for restrictions on abortion.
- In a 2022 interview she said, “we need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after, you already made a choice.”
- During her campaign for lieutenant governor she said called abortion “genocide.”
- Sears supports an extreme six week abortion ban similar to the law that took effect in Texas that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant.
- Sears has said that she would support an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.
- January 2021: The Winchester Star reported that Sears said she wanted to make abortion illegal in all cases, unless the life of the mother was at risk.
- Sears vowed to “do everything in [her] power” to end abortion in Virginia.
- Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
- Sears attempted to scrub this abortion section from her website around September 2021.
- Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
- Sears has declared she is “standing shoulder to shoulder” with the far-right fight against IVF.
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