
House bill would protect women forced to seek abortion across state lines
Texas Democrat Lizzie Fletcher has introduced legislation to protect women from being criminalized for interstate travel to seek abortions.

Texas Democrat Lizzie Fletcher has introduced legislation to protect women from being criminalized for interstate travel to seek abortions.

It sure sounds like Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants a full-out abortion ban, and the only thing stopping him is the Democrat-majority State Senate. The 2023 General Assembly elections will be a referendum on a lot of things. Abortion will clearly be at the forefront.

Jefferson often conceded the Declaration of Independence did not state any new ideas but those that had long circulated amongst English and Colonial thinkers.

A billboard in Stafford County is reminding voters in Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District that Yesli Vega said last month that victims of rape are less likely to get pregnant.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants to prohibit abortions in Virginia after 15 weeks. Fifth District Congressman Bob Good’s response to that: hold my beer.

Unprecedented floods in South Asia and China have forced mass evacuations and left millions miserable.

What do the Chinese authorities have to say about criticisms of the surveillance state?

It’s looking more and more that the House Jan. 6 Committee will soon be making criminal referrals to federal prosecutors in its investigation into former president Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Gallup’s measure of our national pride is at its lowest level since the polling firm began measuring national pride back in 2001.

Staff writer Rebecca J. Barnabi has written a piece on a Staunton woman who is leading an effort to get the city school system to revisit the decision eliminating Weekday Religious Education, a weekly volunteer-led program with a curriculum presenting a narrow, conservative Christian worldview.
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