Virginia’s extremist abortion vote

Published September 20, 2026 6:00am ET



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Abortion is legal in almost all cases in Virginia, but that’s not good enough for the Democrats. They want to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right, and they want to strip nearly all abortion regulations for all nine months of pregnancy.

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