It’s been more than three weeks since Winsome Earle-Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against a bill that would guarantee Virginia women access to contraception. Sears must explain why she wants to leave the door open to extreme restrictions on access to birth control by refusing to protect the right to birth control and emergency contraception. 

“Winsome Earle-Sears’ tie-breaking no vote signals her extreme plans to roll back rights and attack health care. Virginians have questions about why Sears couldn’t resist voting no, and Sears must answer for her record,” said DPVA Communications Director Kelsey Carolan.

Read more on Sears’ dangerous record:

• 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: “The baby in the womb wants to live! [...] therefore, I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”

    • Sears attempted to scrub this abortion section of her website around September 2021.

• Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against a bill that would guarantee Virginia women’s access to contraception.

• Sears has declared she is “standing shoulder to shoulder” in the fight against IVF.

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