On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that legalized abortion, hundreds of women lobbied Virginia lawmakers in person or by e-mail, asking them to increase access to contraception and repeal the state’s mandatory ultrasound law for women seeking an abortion.
Earlier this week, they lost one important battle when a senate committee failed to vote on a bill that would have required prescription drug insurance to cover birth control. Janice Craft-Henry is with NARAL-Pro Choice Virginia.
“Ninety-eight percent of women who have been sexually active who are of reproductive age have used at least one form of contraception, and a third of these women have difficulty paying for that contraception.”
All fourteen members of the committee were men – eleven of them Republicans. A similar bill could still be approved in Virginia’s House of Delegates.
