Promises made, promises kept

The General Assembly has begun pre-filing legislation for the upcoming session, giving us an early look at the priorities of the Democrat majority.

House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) describes their agenda this way: “These first bills honor that trust. Our agenda is focused on lowering costs, lifting wages, expanding opportunity, protecting Virginians’ rights, and ensuring fair representation.”

Here is how to interpret that statement: their first bills seek to cripple the Virginia economy, crush small business growth, kill more innocent pre-born lives in the womb, trample on traditional family values, and redraw the Congressional map for the biggest power grab in Virginia history.

Below is a list of some of the first early pre-filed bills.

HB6 – Presumed “affirmative” right to abortion causing drugs and sterilization
Creates a presumed affirmative right to obtain abortion causing drugs and sterilization without parental consent or any religious protections for doctors or prescribers.

HJ1 / SJ1 – Unlimited Abortion Amendment
Proposes a constitutional amendment creating a broad “right” to abortion that would allow abortion up to the moment of birth, with no meaningful safety protections for women and no limits on who may perform abortions.

HJ3 / SJ3 – Same-sex/Transgender Marriage Amendment
Proposes a constitutional amendment that repeals Virginia’s one-man, one-woman marriage definition and replaces it with gender-ideology language, threatening girls’ safety and sports by further opening girls’ teams and spaces to males who identify as female, and undermining basic religious liberty protections for individuals, ministries, and businesses.

HJ4 – Gerrymandering Amendment
Proposes a constitutional change allowing the General Assembly to bypass the current bipartisan Redistricting Commission and redraw district lines itself, making it easier for the majority party to rig maps in its favor.

SB19 – Keeping Sexually Explicit Books in Public School Libraries

Prevents local school boards from using current law to remove sexually explicit books from school libraries. Current law gives parents the right to opt their child out of sexually explicit materials.  This bill would effectively normalize sexually explicit and pornographic content in public school libraries, over parents’ objections.

Among the most serious items on the table are several radical constitutional amendments that would permanently alter Virginia’s legal landscape on life, family, and parental rights. This legislative session will last sixty days. However, we fully expect that if these proposed constitutional amendments pass, the wheels will quickly be set in motion to hold a special referendum on all such amendments within ninety days (likely by late April or early May).

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