Winsome Earle-Sears is back.
As the news that former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin had returned to the private sector, aka joining technology capital firm Red Cell Partners as a partner, chairman, and board member, his lieutenant governor returned to the world of three-speeches-a-day campaigning.
Why?
“Babies and Families,” Winsome Earle-Sears told the crowd at the annual summer picnic held by the GOP units in the Harrisonburg and Staunton area this past Sunday in Weyers Cave.
She’s on a mission to defeat the constitutional amendments on the ballot this November.
“This is my mission. We have to say that we did everything to make sure that this amendment [is defeated.] It is poorly written, it is deceptive,” Earle-Sears told me regarding the amendment that would allow a woman to abort her baby right up to the moment before it’s about to be born.
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She recalled that when the amendment first came up in the Virginia Senate she was presiding over, “the question was asked, ‘What do we do with the baby who was born alive?’ Because the amendment, as it is written, states that you can have an abortion up until the very hour, the very minute that the baby could be born.”
“There is no provision for that.”
Wait, someone left an important point out of a constitutional amendment? That would never happen in Richmond.
Earle-Sears went on. “There is nothing that says, ‘Well, the baby must now, because the baby is alive, breathing, is now a person,’ as even the Democrats would say. And so, the baby has his own protection as a human being. No, none of that.”
But wait, the U.S. Marine in her is just getting started.
“And then, of course, another provision in the amendment says that you could just take my daughter across state lines, without my permission, my underage child. You can’t even give my underage child an aspirin without my permission as a parent.”
Sears also pointed out that the constitutional amendment would cement transgender lockers and bathrooms into Virginia law.
“You could have a male in the women’s locker room, in girls sports, in our bathrooms. You see what has happened in Fairfax and in so many other places in Virginia where you have an adult male who claims to be a woman now in the locker room with underage girls.”
Deceptive language. We saw that in the ballot wording for the gerrymandering amendment, too.
“Words are powerful, as we know,” Sears said. “And when you look at these amendments, they are deceptively rich. They don’t explain what I have just told you, and I haven’t even told you every single bit of it because there’s just so much that’s wrong with it. And so, what I’m telling you is go and do the research yourself.”
The language that will appear on the ballot Nov. 3 (technically Sept. 18, when early voting begins) is: “Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) protect the freedom to make personal decisions about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion, miscarriage management, and fertility care; (ii) protect doctors, nurses, and patients from being punished for these decisions; and (iii) allow for restrictions on access to abortion during the third trimester of pregnancy except when the patient’s health is at risk or the pregnancy cannot survive?”
That’s it, or as they say in the General Assembly, “sine die.”
Seems vaguer than even the former lieutenant governor implies.
You can read it for yourself at the Virginia Legislative Information System, but here’s what she’s talking about:
“An individual’s right to reproductive freedom shall not be, directly or indirectly, denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”
“The Commonwealth shall not discriminate in the protection or enforcement of this fundamental right.”
“The Commonwealth shall not penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against an individual based on such individual’s own exercise of this fundamental right or such individual’s own actual, potential, perceived, or alleged pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion.”
“The Commonwealth shall not penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against any individual for aiding or assisting another individual in exercising such other individual’s right to reproductive freedom with such other individual’s voluntary consent.”
I guess that is a lot to put on a ballot.
We also spoke about the amendment on same-sex marriage, and you can hear all of that in the attached MP3.
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