The state Senate also backed proposed amendments to repeal the ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution and to automatically restore voting rights to felons who served their terms.

Virginia’s Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday passed constitutional amendments on abortion and voting rights that were quickly ...

The votes followed an emotional floor debate on abortion — and an unusual parliamentary tussle over whether the Democratic ...

There were tears, yells and a call of “out of order” but by the end of the day Virginia’s Senate on Tuesday passed three ...

There were tears, yells and a call of “out of order” but by the end of the day Virginia’s Senate on Tuesday passed three ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — The Virginia Senate voted Tuesday to advance a trio of constitutional amendments to guarantee Virginians ...

Virginia Democrats advanced a proposal to enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution earlier this week. The amendment would ensure a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom ...

Last fall, Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek announced the state had stockpiled a three-year supply of the abortion pill mifepristone ahead of President-elect Trump’s return to the White House.

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A Baptist minister, a Presbyterian pastor and a Jewish cantor held burning incense as they walked quietly through the empty, white-walled clinic. They blessed the exam tables and their stirrups ...