{"id":88862,"date":"2021-12-20T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=88862"},"modified":"2021-12-20T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:44:13","slug":"virginia-democrats-split-over-last-minute-plan-to-shore-up-abortion-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=88862","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Virginia Democrats split over last-minute plan to shore up abortion rights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2021\/12\/18\/virginia-abortion-youngkin\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Virginia Democrats are divided over whether to make an 11th-hour push to strengthen abortion rights in the state as they prepare to hand over control of the Executive Mansion and state House to Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abortion rights activists and some House Democrats are calling for the General Assembly to gather in special session before Republicans assume the majority in the House of Delegates on Jan. 12 and Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) takes office three days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their goal is to codify&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, in state law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s make it happen. We owe it to Virginia women!\u201d Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) tweeted Friday along with a warning that Youngkin and the high court \u201ccannot be trusted to protect the right to an abortion.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Virginia Democrats are divided over whether to make an 11th-hour push to strengthen abortion rights in the state as they prepare to hand over control of the Executive Mansion and state House to Republicans. Abortion rights activists and some House Democrats are calling for the General Assembly to gather in special session before Republicans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88863,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88862\/revisions\/88863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}