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Virginia Democrats already pushing abortion-on-demand amendment in the state's constitution
Red State ^ | 11/22/2023 | John Grondelski

Posted on 11/22/2023 7:38:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind

If anybody has any doubt about abortionists’ priorities — or Democrats’ dedication to them — one need only read Virginia House Joint Resolution 1.

Having taken control of the Virginia House of Delegates and kept control of its Senate, Virginia Democrats signaled their commitment to abortion by prefiling in symbolic first place a bill to write abortion on demand into the Old Dominion’s state constitution.

The proposed amendment guarantees abortion on demand for any reason throughout pregnancy.  Unlike Ohio’s recently adopted Issue One, it does not even feign the pretense of a post-viability limit on abortion.  Instead, any restriction by Virginia would be subject to a test that identifies a “compelling state interest” and is the “least restrictive means” to achieve that interest. 

Clearly, under this amendment, the state has no interest in the life of the unborn.  In that sense, it’s even more radical than Roe v. Wade, which paid lip service to the state’s “interest” in “potential life” (though, in practice, the Court never found any instance in which that “interest” stood in the way of an abortion). 

What is clearly behind this language (and its references to “accepted clinical standards” and “evidence-based medicine”) is the exclusion of any sort of legislation attendant to abortion that might conceivably discourage a woman from having one.  From 2012 through 2020, for example, Virginia required women to be shown an ultrasound of their unborn child and had a 24-hour waiting period prior to obtaining an abortion.  Ultrasound imagery did cause some women to change their minds.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: abortion; constitution; virginia
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1 posted on 11/22/2023 7:38:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats are a death cult.


2 posted on 11/22/2023 7:39:26 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Abortion is a spiritual issue more than a legal issue.

Abortion is Child Sacrifice.


3 posted on 11/22/2023 7:42:28 AM PST by MMusson
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To: MMusson
yiu can't legislate morality.

God doesnt need me interfering with his plans..Im a christian who believes God will seek revenge on anyone who participated in child sacrifice. In his time, and its going to be horrible for these people.

4 posted on 11/22/2023 7:46:37 AM PST by Ikeon (I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
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To: Ikeon

Baloney, we regulate morality all the time. I am sure you have no problem with death penalty for murderers. That is legislating morality.

God does have in interest in seeing that we are law abiding, that makes us free to spread the gospel.

Romans 13:4 “For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.”


5 posted on 11/22/2023 7:58:02 AM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: SeekAndFind

People need to see abortion. Then ask democrats why they are pushing it so hard on the populace. Make them answer these questions.


6 posted on 11/22/2023 8:03:23 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: MMusson

Yep.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Moloch-ancient-god


7 posted on 11/22/2023 8:03:44 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: MMusson

For the rats abortion is the golden ticket. They will is it to mobilize millions of selfish single issue women voters across the country. Dodd was the right decision but it is proving to be catastrophic. They are going to get these ballot initiatives on the November ballots in every swing state.


8 posted on 11/22/2023 8:13:22 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Well it’s a State issue now. That’s the best we could have hoped for.


9 posted on 11/22/2023 8:14:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: virgil
Then ask democrats why they are pushing it so hard on the populace. Make them answer these questions.

"There are far too many picaninnies around. If we can, we should encourage all black women to abort their fetuses. It's what we have been doing since Saint Margaret Sanger received her spiritual guidance almost 100 years ago."

10 posted on 11/22/2023 8:21:31 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

They’re going back to the well. Can you blame them?


11 posted on 11/22/2023 8:31:41 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SeekAndFind

Reproductive Health Care,right?

Infanticide is now widely accepted, encouraged, even considered a “constitutional right” by leftists. Socialists have no belief in God, so murder is remarkably easy, even murdering your own child is like a trip to the dentist.

Abortion is the amoral Marxist sacrament for narcissists, hedonistic fornicators, irresponsible ‘fathers’, etc.

Anybody who is “Pro Choice” is either ignorant, naive, heartless, or maybe just indoctrinated by the false narrative that sophists like Planned Parenthood have been bombarding us with for all these years.


12 posted on 11/22/2023 8:32:07 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: wbarmy
laws are for a moral people, they dont affect the immoral. So passing them is a waste of time in the U.S.

as far as the world today. There are too many people waiting to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ to waste time on people who are lost and intend on staying lost

there is far too much good harvest to waste efforts trying to collect rotten fruit.

13 posted on 11/22/2023 9:19:25 AM PST by Ikeon (I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
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To: Ikeon
yiu can't legislate morality.

Of course you can. Murder, rape, robbery, assault, 'discrimination', fraud, theft ... these are all examples of legislating morality.

"You can't legislate morality" is code for "I want to commit buggery and kill babies".

14 posted on 11/22/2023 9:24:48 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

They forgot the postpartum abortions former Governor Mengele was so fond of.


15 posted on 11/22/2023 9:57:19 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: NorthMountain
How can you tell bad people what to do?

All you're doing id telling them is " if you do this , we may punish you"..

morality is internal. you cant put morals in an adult- ie: you really cant legislate morals into peoples hearts.

16 posted on 11/22/2023 10:17:54 AM PST by Ikeon (I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
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To: Ikeon
All you're doing id telling them is " if you do this , we may punish you"..

If you slaughter babies in utero we may punish you. I reiterate my translation of "you can't legislate morality". It's a bullshit phrase meant to confuse and obfuscate that the speaker is dedicated to sodomy and baby-killing.

17 posted on 11/22/2023 10:22:51 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Will it require the Governor’s agreement, and 2/3 majority in both legislative bodies without the Governor’s agreement? I don’t think the Dims in Virginia can get a 2/3 majority on anything.


18 posted on 11/22/2023 10:33:34 AM PST by Wuli ( ,)
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To: dfwgator

The Democrats are HAPPY that abortion is a state issue! This legislative maneuver is likely to fail just in time to get an abortion initiative on the 2024 ballot. The Democrats know that including abortion in an election will bring out the liberal vote. They will do anything to put obstacles in front of President Trump.


19 posted on 11/22/2023 12:28:29 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: gibsonguy

You are right. It is the Democrat golden ticket. See my post #19. However you need to improve your typing or your English. Your second sentence is gibberish.


20 posted on 11/22/2023 12:32:34 PM PST by the_Watchman
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