VIRGINIA – It’s been 61 days since Winsome Earle-Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against a bill that would guarantee Virginia women access to birth control and contraception. Sears has not answered why she wants to leave the door open to extreme restrictions on access to birth control and emergency contraception. 

“Winsome Earle-Sears’ tie-breaking vote against the right to contraception and birth control is yet another example in her extreme record of opposing reproductive rights. Sears owes Virginians answers about why she supports an agenda that’s out-of-step with the Commonwealth,” said DPVA Spokesperson Maggie Amjad.

Read more on Sears’ dangerous record:

• Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against this legislation to guarantee Virginia women’s access to contraception.
• 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 has declared she is “standing shoulder to shoulder” with the far-right fight against IVF.

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