Virginia Democrats fast-tracked the resolution as a top priority in the state’s first session of 2025, completing the first step in the two-year amendment process.
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In an aggressive step towards enshrining unlimited abortion in Virginia, the Commonwealth’s Democrat-majority Senate late last month advanced a ballot measure that would codify abortion until birth in the state’s constitution. If passed again next year, the amendment will become a ballot measure in 2026 and go to a statewide vote.
Just a week before that, Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates voted in favor of the amendment. After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, codifying abortion has become a rallying cry for abortion advocates. Virginia Democrats fast-tracked the resolution as a top priority in the state’s first session of 2025, completing the first step in the two-year amendment process.
