Today, Wednesday February 1st 2017, from 6-7pm, at the Main Street SunTrust Building (919 East Main Street, Richmond VA), ProgressVA is holding a rally to ask Virginia's U.S. senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, to reject Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
For more info and to RSVP, see this link.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Roe v. Wade Day
Today is Roe v. Wade Day, the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case which ruled that a person’s right to privacy includes the right to an abortion, up until the point of fetal viability (legally, 24 weeks). Any attempt to restrict access to abortion before 24 weeks, such as the 20-week ban currently going before the Virginia General Assembly (HB 1473), is unconstitutional.
This is extremely significant; before legal abortion was available, people who needed the procedure obtained it any way they could, often from people with limited or nonexistent medical training. These backalley procedures frequently resulted in death by infection or hemorrhage. Read more here.
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