Sears has a long and dangerous record attacking reproductive rights and supporting dangerous abortion bans
VIRGINIA – Ahead of the June 17 primary in Virginia, the Democratic Party of Virginia is continuing to highlight the top five reasons Winsome Earle-Sears is too extreme to lead the Commonwealth.
Today is a reminder that Sears has a long record attacking reproductive rights and supporting dangerous abortion bans.
“Winsome Earle-Sears has an extreme agenda to roll back rights in the Commonwealth and enact a near-total abortion ban. While Virginians deserve a governor who puts Virginia first, Sears is only focused on pushing her out of touch agenda,” said DPVA Spokesperson Maggie Amjad.
Read about Sears’ Dangerous Record on Reproductive Rights:
- In multiple interviews, Sears has made clear her support for restrictions on abortion.
- In a 2022 interview she said, “we need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after, you already made a choice.”
- During her campaign for lieutenant governor she said called abortion “genocide.”
- Sears supports an extreme six week abortion ban similar to the law that took effect in Texas that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant.
- Sears has said that she would support an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.
- January 2021: The Winchester Star reported that Sears said she wanted to make abortion illegal in all cases, unless the life of the mother was at risk.
- Sears vowed to “do everything in [her] power” to end abortion in Virginia.
- Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
- Sears attempted to scrub this abortion section from her website around September 2021.
- Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
- Sears left a handwritten note that she is “morally opposed to this bill [...]” on the constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive freedom in Virginia, including contraception, abortion, and IVF.
- Sears admitted she would not sign the Right to Contraception Act into law saying “[...] This legislation is more about pushing a political agenda [...].”
- Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against this legislation to guarantee Virginia women’s access to contraception.
- Sears has declared she is “standing shoulder to shoulder” with the far-right fight against IVF.
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