Virginia's Crucial Role in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom: Two Years After Devastating Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade
For Immediate Release: June 25, 2024 (Updated: June 25, 2024, 5 p.m.)
Richmond, Va – Today marks the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a ruling that has allowed states across the country to strip away the fundamental right to abortion. Over the past two years, this decision has led to chaos, desperation, and confusion, resulting in devastating experiences for millions of people.
Jamie Lockhart, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia said, “Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s devastating decision to overturn Roe v. Wade unleashed a cascade of abortion bans across the country, including in nearly all of Virginia’s neighboring states. Virginia continues to be a key abortion access state as millions across the south now face limited or no options where they live. Politicians disconnected from the needs of the people are relentlessly working to ban or restrict sexual and reproductive health care in Virginia and across the nation. Despite what they said when Roe was overturned, anti-abortion extremists were not satisfied with overturning Roe.
Abortion is on the ballot again this year, next year, and every year until we secure our right to reproductive freedom. Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia is committed to ensuring Virginia enshrines protections for abortion, contraception and other reproductive health care into our constitution.”
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Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia (PPAV) is a statewide advocacy organization whose mission is to preserve and broaden access to reproductive health care through legislation, public education, electoral activity and litigation in the Commonwealth of Virginia. PPAV works to ensure that individuals and families have the freedom, information, and ability to make their own informed reproductive choices.