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RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – Virginia Republicans are brainstorming options for pro-life policies that Gov. Glenn Youngkin could pursue in a post-Roe v. Wade world, where the political realities of the state legislature continue to make banning abortion an uphill battle.
Youngkin called for banning abortion at 15 weeks in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe last month, which restored the elected branches’ of government’s ability to set abortion policy. But such a ban is unlikely to make it through a General Assembly split between Republican and Democrat control.
“If the governor is trying to push a 15-week ban, it’s not going to get through my committee. I can guarantee you that,” Democrat state Sen. Louise Lucas, who heads the Senate Education and Health Committee, says, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
“I believe, as a pro-life governor, that life begins at conception,” Youngkin has said on the prospect of a full abortion ban, which some Virginia
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