A proposal to clamp down on stunt-driving street takeovers drew bipartisan support during Virginia’s just-wrapped legislative session and is likely to be signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, but the Republican is expected to veto bills establishing a retail marijuana market and enshrining late-term abortion access.
A third bill to remove the rape exception from West Virginia’s total abortion ban has hit the state’s legislature—all within a two-week period.
A bill that would remove abortion exemptions for rape and incest has been introduced to the West Virginia legislature for the third time in as many weeks.
Twenty-four hours after a GOP Sen. withdrew his bill to get rid of the rape exception—because he was getting threats—a GOP Del. introduced an identical bill. "Why are we doing this?" the House Minority Leader,
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights.
A group of Republican lawmakers want to remove the rape and incest exception in West Virginia’s near total abortion ban. It’s one of several abortion-related measures introduced so far this session in the overwhelming Republican legislature that aim to discourage individuals from having the procedure.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WTAP) - Although the bill to remove rape and incest as exceptions for abortions was withdrawn from the state senate, a bill on the issue still remains in the house. The house bill proposes, “removing abortion exceptions for rape and incest.”
A bill aiming to eliminate abortion exemptions for victims of rape and incest has been reintroduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates.According to legisl
The first 14 states that restricted abortion after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022 delivered 22,181 more babies into the world as a result, a federally funded study shows.
“The Biden-era EEOC’s attempt to turn a good law into an ideological weapon to force broad elective abortion accommodations is illegal ... South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia — is one of several legal challenges to the Pregnant Workers Fairness ...