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In response to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoing legislation to protect access to contraception, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast fall, MAGA extremist Glenn Youngkin witnessed Virginia voters reject his attempts to attack women\u2019s reproductive rights at the ballot box. Clearly, Governor Youngkin didn\u2019t learn his lesson. Today\u2019s veto of legislation to protect Virginians\u2019 right to contraception offers further evidence that Youngkin is still operating from Donald Trump\u2019s losing playbook as he doubles down on Trump\u2019s deeply unpopular, anti-freedom agenda. Trump, Glenn Youngkin, and MAGA extremists across the country seem as hellbent on ripping away women\u2019s reproductive rights as they are on losing elections.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virginia voters made it clear last fall that Glenn Youngkin and MAGA Republicans’ anti-freedom agenda is deeply unpopular. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cVirginia Democrats sweep legislative elections after campaigning on abortion rights\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVirginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday\u2019s legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe outcome is a sharp loss for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his fellow Republicans, who exerted a great deal of energy, money and political capital on their effort to secure a GOP trifecta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th News<\/a>: \u201cVirginia Republicans embraced a 15-week abortion ban \u2014 and then lost\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTuesday\u2019s election results in Virginia are a rebuke to what anti-abortion advocates and Republican politicians hoped was a limit that a broad swath of voters could get behind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Donald Trump overturned <\/strong>Roe<\/em><\/strong> and unleashed anti-reproductive rights legislation in state after state, contraception is now on the MAGA chopping block. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stateline<\/a>: \u201c<\/strong>Some States Already Are Targeting Birth Control\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Missouri Republicans] were going after specific forms of birth control as well, notably, emergency contraceptives, often sold under the brand name Plan B, and intrauterine devices, known as IUDs. GOP lawmakers tried to stop Missouri\u2019s Medicaid agency from paying for those forms of contraception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMissouri state Sen. Paul Wieland, one of the Republicans who led that effort, explained his position this way: \u2018The bottom line is there is only one time something definitively happens and that\u2019s the moment of conception. Once that happens, anything that happens should not be state funded.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cWake Up! Republicans Really Are Trying to Ban Contraception\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHouse Bill 3216, or the \u2018Oklahoma Right To Human Life Act,\u2019 seeks to create a database to track women who have abortions, limit the use of emergency contraception\u2013like the Plan B pill\u2013and also restrict the use of intrauterine devices, which prevent the implantation of a fertilized human embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRepublican Opposition to Birth Control Bill Could Alienate Voters, Poll Finds\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA new national poll conducted by Americans for Contraception and obtained by The New York Times found that most voters across the political spectrum believe their access to birth control is actively at risk, and that 80 percent of voters said that protecting access to contraception was \u2018deeply important\u2019 to them. Even among Republican voters, 72 percent said they had a favorable view of birth control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen voters were told that 195 House Republicans had voted against the Right to Contraception Act, 64 percent of them said they would be less likely to support Republican candidates for Congress, according to the poll. And overall, the issue of protecting access to contraception bolstered voters\u2019 preference for Democrats by nine points, giving them a 12-point edge over Republicans, up from three.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even after voters in Virginia and across the country expressed outrage at MAGA Republicans\u2019 attacks on reproductive freedom, extremist Glenn Youngkin continues to attack reproductive health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Leader<\/a>: \u201cIn a late-evening action, Youngkin vetoes abortion-related and family medical leave bills\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBills HB519 and SB716, if signed would have prohibited the Virginia Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor who provides abortion care; bills HB1539 and SB15, if signed, would have prohibited extradition from the commonwealth for health professionals who provide abortion care deemed illegal in another state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VPM<\/a>: \u201cGov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed four bills Friday night that would have created shield laws for reproductive-health providers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WVTF<\/a>: \u201cRepublican Governor Glenn Youngkin now has the record for the most number of vetoes of any governor in recent memory, and he rolled out new abortion vetoes over the weekend. Here’s Senator Barbara Favola, a Democrat from Arlington who introduced one of the vetoed bills that would\u2019ve protected women and providers from being extradited to Tennessee or Texas, where abortion is much more restricted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You can imagine a woman who had to cobble together money to leave her state and then take time off from work, come to Virginia alone, scarred,\u2019 Favola says. \u2018We should be able to provide that woman the peace of mind that she won’t be extradited.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAGA minion Youngkin is following Trump\u2019s toxic, anti-reproductive rights playbook. Trump laid the groundwork for attacks in the states on reproductive care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI was proudly the person responsible for the ending of\u2026 Roe v. Wade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanity Fair<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He Wouldn\u2019t Stop States From Tracking Individual Pregnancies So They Can Prosecute People Caught Getting Abortions\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoing legislation to protect access to contraception, DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement:  \u201cLast fall, MAGA extremist Glenn Youngkin witnessed Virginia voters reject his attempts to attack women\u2019s reproductive rights at the ballot box. Clearly, Governor Youngkin didn\u2019t learn his lesson. Today\u2019s veto of legislation to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGlenn Youngkin Continues to Undermine Women\u2019s Freedoms, Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/glenn-youngkin-continues-to-undermine-womens-freedoms-doubling-down-on-a-losing-strategy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-17T21:37:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T19:54:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/glenn-youngkin-continues-to-undermine-womens-freedoms-doubling-down-on-a-losing-strategy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/glenn-youngkin-continues-to-undermine-womens-freedoms-doubling-down-on-a-losing-strategy\/\",\"name\":\"Glenn Youngkin Continues to Undermine Women\u2019s Freedoms, Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy - 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