VIRGINIA – After her tie-breaking vote, Winsome Earle-Sears has dodged the media and refused to answer why she voted against the Right to Contraception Act and wants to leave the door open to extreme restrictions on access to birth control and emergency contraception.  

“Winsome Earle-Sears’ tie-breaking no vote makes clear that she won’t protect Virginians’ fundamental freedoms. Virginians have questions about why Sears couldn’t resist voting no, and Sears must answer for her record instead of hiding,” 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.

  • She refused to answer questions from the media about her tie-breaking vote denying Virginians access to contraception and birth control.

• 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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