Mon Jan 24, 2022 – 4:47 pm EST
RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Virginia’s newly minted Republican leadership has lost no time delivering on its conservative campaign promises.
On his first day in office, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a raft of executive orders banning critical race theory and striking down certain mask and COVID jab mandates.
Now, Virginia’s new solicitor general has withdrawn the state from a pro-abortion lawsuit filed along with 22 other states, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina’s Attorney General, which had contended that Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban was unconstitutional.
The legitimacy of Mississippi’s law is now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court in the much-anticipated Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which could see the federal “right to abortion” overturned.
“Following the change in Administration on January 15, 2022, the Attorney General has reconsidered Virginia’s position in this case,” wrote Virginia’s new solicitor general Andrew N. Ferguson on Friday, adding that “Virginia no longer adheres to the arguments contained in its previously filed brief.”
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Ferguson cited Justice Clarence Thomas in arguing that Roe v. Wade (1973)
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