{"id":2390579,"date":"2025-01-15T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-house-democrats-push-forward-amendments-on-abortion-and-marriage-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:01:30","slug":"virginia-house-democrats-push-forward-amendments-on-abortion-and-marriage-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-house-democrats-push-forward-amendments-on-abortion-and-marriage-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia House Democrats push forward amendments on abortion and marriage &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-house-democrats-push-forward-amendments-on-abortion-and-marriage-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390579&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text appears to be \u2064an excerpt\u2062 from a web \u200bpage that\u2062 includes a button for additional\u200d content labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221;,along with various\u2064 XML and\u200d HTML elements related to the site layout. 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It would also permit abortion in the third trimester to &ldquo;protect the life or physical or mental health&rdquo; of the mother.<\/p>\n<p>The measure passed in the House, 51-48, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-joe-manchin-threatens-to-derail-bidens-1-9-trillion-aid-bill-unless-it-receives-bipartisan-support\/\" title=\"Sen. Joe Manchin Threatens To Derail Biden\u2019s .9 Trillion Aid Bill Unless It Receives \u2018Bipartisan\u2019 Support\">party-line vote<\/a>, with Republican delegates <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/earley4delegate\/status\/1879324789384310888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"warning\">warning<\/a> the measure would allow for &ldquo;abortion up to 40 weeks with no meaningful restrictions&rdquo; and calling it the &ldquo;most extreme abortion amendment in the nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If approved again by the state House and Senate next year, Virginia would be the latest state to have abortion on the ballot since the 2022 Supreme Court decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&rsquo;s Health Organization <\/em>returned abortion laws to the states. While abortion measures have largely passed, the 2024 election saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3220736\/abortion-rights-amendments-fail-three-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"multiple\">multiple<\/a> measures fail for the first time since the Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n<p>The other measures would repeal a constitutional provision that says marriage is between a man and a woman and would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/only-democratic-representative-to-vote-against-h-r-1-election-bill-explains-decision\/\" title=\"Only Democratic Representative To Vote Against H.R. 1 Election Bill Explains Decision\">restore voting rights<\/a> for felons once a person has served his or her sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">marriage amendment resolution passed 58-35<\/a>, with all Democrats and some Republicans joining in the majority, while the felon voting amendment resolution passed 55-44, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>All three measures were voted out of committee favorably in the state House on party lines Tuesday and appear likely to pass in the upper chamber. Democrats also hold a 21-19 majority in the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fate of the three amendments advancing to the ballot will be decided in November when every seat in the state House will be up for vote.<\/p>\n<p>The election will also include races for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, all offices Republicans are hoping to maintain control of while also flipping the state House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1935912\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1935912\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia House Democrats advance abortion and marriage amendments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2390580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/virginia-proposed-amendments-state-house.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4310,5422,33723,6205,5468],"class_list":["post-2390579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-amendments","tag-house-democrats","tag-marriage","tag-virginia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/virginia-proposed-amendments-state-house.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390584,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390579\/revisions\/2390584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}