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Winsome Earle-Sears Remains Committed to Ripping Away Reproductive Freedom

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Winsome Earle-Sears Remains Committed to Ripping Away Reproductive Freedom

Today, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is set to speak at the far-right March for Life in Richmond, once again making clear she’s running for governor to ban abortion and restrict access to birth control and contraception.

“Winsome Earle-Sears is once again proudly standing alongside anti-choice extremists and making it clear she wants to attack abortion rights and reproductive health care like birth control,” said DGA National Press Secretary Devon Cruz.

Winsome Earle-Sears’ Extreme Anti-Choice Agenda is Too Dangerous for Virginia:

  • As Lieutenant Governor presiding over the state senate, Sears “couldn’t resist” casting the tie-breaking vote against legislation to guarantee the right to access contraception and birth control, which was later gutted by Gov. Youngkin, leaving the door open to future attacks on Virginians’ access to contraception and birth control .
  • Last year, Sears spoke at an event hosted by The Family Foundation of Virginia, a group which has compared IVF to “child trafficking” and deemed parents who use IVF to grow their families as “selfish.” Sears declared that she is “standing shoulder to shoulder” with this group who is opposed to IVF.
  • Sears supports an extreme abortion ban “similar to the law that took effect in Texas” that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant.
  • Sears has claimed that after conception, “The baby isn’t even [the mother’s] body, she’s got her own body. The blood running through the veins of the baby don’t belong to her, it’s not her blood.”

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