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Throughout my time as a public servant, I have remained committed to protecting reproductive freedom in Virginia and beyond. I was the first member of the Virginia House of Delegates to serve while pregnant, and I learned firsthand about the urgency of ensuring access to reproductive health care in a legislative body that lacked that lived experience. Several years later, I almost died in childbirth when I developed placenta previa and my placenta ruptured, and my daughter spent 6 weeks in the NICU after an emergency C-section. I was grateful that my doctor was able to make the decision she felt was best to save my life in that moment, without fear of prosecution.
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 with the Dobbs decision, we saw nearly 50 years of progress rolled back. Over the last four years, Americans have been forced to travel thousands of miles to access abortion care, and multiple women have died waiting for simple procedures that could have saved their lives. This has only furthered the maternal mortality crisis our country faces, especially within low-income, Black and Brown communities. I am fighting to codify Roe as the law of the land to keep politicians out of private medical choices, to give providers access to the full spectrum of reproductive care options and protect those in need of emergency care, just like I was.
While Virginia has maintained strong state legislation protecting abortion care, many do not have access to the same freedoms. One in three women nationwide live in a state where abortion is heavily restricted or banned. No matter what state you’re in, patients and their providers, not politicians, should have the right to choose when, whether and how to become a parent. As Chair of the Abortion Access and Rights Task Force in the Reproductive Freedom Caucus, I work to protect access to abortion care in Virginia and around the country — so that those like my daughter and the next generation maintain their right to reproductive freedom.
You can read up on your reproductive rights here on my website.
