Tue Feb 21, 2023 – 6:49 pm EST
RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — The Virginia state Senate this month passed a bill to enshrine abortion in the Commonwealth’s constitution. The director of the Virginia Society for Human Life has called the measure “dangerous” and “extreme” and asked Virginians to urge the House of Delegates not to pass it.
The Democrat-led Senate passed the bill in a 21-18 vote on February 7. The measure now rests with a subcommittee of the House of Delegates, which on February 17 decided 5-3 to put off a vote indefinitely. The Virginia House maintains a narrow 52-48 Republican majority.
If passed into law, the measure would add misleading and gender-neutral language to Article 1 of Virginia’s Bill of Rights by proclaiming that “every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom [sic].”
“This right to make and effectuate one’s own decisions about all matters related to one’s pregnancy shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means that do not infringe an individual’s autonomous decision-making,” the proposed amendment states.
“A state interest is compelling only when it is to
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