Richmond, VA – As this November’s election becomes a defining moment for protecting abortion rights in Virginia, Jason Miyares is hiding from his years-long anti-abortion record that “poses a new threat to reproductive freedom.” Here are the facts:
- Miyares urged the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and withdrew Virginia from a legal brief opposing Mississippi’s six-week abortion ban and defending a woman’s access to abortion.
- Miyares endorsed Gov. Youngkin’s abortion ban – and just last month, he told WAVY: “I support a ban.”
- Miyares called the overturning of Roe v. Wade “good and reasonable.”
- Miyares refused to protect Virginians’ access to mifepristone, choosing not to join in a brief to the Supreme Court to protect the use and distribution of the safe and commonly prescribed abortion medication.
- Miyares voted to defund Planned Parenthood, which annually performs more than 500,000 breast cancer exams and pap exams nationally.
- Miyares voted against Virginia’s Reproductive Health Protection Act, to maintain Virginia’s ban on private plans in the state’s health insurance exchange covering abortions, and against legislation stating that FDA-approved birth control was not considered abortion.
- Miyares was an “expert presenter” at an online event hosted by David Bereit and the Family Foundation dedicated to stopping Virginia’s abortion amendment “dead in its tracks” before it reaches voters in 2026.
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