Sears and Donalds share an extreme record attacking reproductive rights and supporting abortion bans

VIRGINIA – Tomorrow, Winsome Earle-Sears is headlining an event alongside fellow anti-choice Republican Byron Donalds, who like Sears has an extreme record opposing abortion rights and contraception. 

“Winsome Earle-Sears’ event tonight with Byron Donalds signals her 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 choosing to stand with Donalds who wants to ban abortion,” 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 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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