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RICHMOND, VA <\/strong>\u2014 Governor Abigail Spanberger today released the following statement marking four years since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 and reiterated her commitment to protecting reproductive rights across Virginia.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhen the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the justices made the choice to jeopardize the rights and endanger the safety of American women.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMillions of women lost access to lifesaving healthcare overnight. In the following four years, politicians in statehouses across the country worked quickly to roll back access to abortion, fertility treatments, contraception, and other reproductive healthcare. Women facing medical emergencies are forced to travel hundreds of miles for care, navigate complex restrictions, and risk criminalization to save their fertility or even their own lives.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cBut not in Virginia. Our Commonwealth has not \u2014 and will not \u2014 follow down this path. Virginia is the only state in the South where a woman has the same freedom to make her own healthcare decisions as she did before the Dobbs <\/em>decision. As long as I am Governor, that will not change. And in November, Virginians will vote to enshrine reproductive freedom in our Constitution \u2014 so no future Governor and no future legislature can unilaterally take these rights away.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u2014<\/p>\r\n

Last week, Governor Spanberger signed<\/u><\/a>\u00a0landmark legislation \u2014 including the Right to Contraception Act \u2014 to protect reproductive freedoms, reaffirm the right to access contraception in Virginia, and make sure more women can access critical reproductive healthcare. The Governor also joined<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the Reproductive Freedom Alliance (RFA), a nonpartisan coalition of governors committed to protecting and expanding reproductive freedom across the United States.<\/p>","content_columns":null,"":null,"settings":""}}]},"yoast_head":"\nGovernor Spanberger Statement Marking Four Years Since Dobbs Ruling - Reproductive Freedom Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reprofreedomalliance.org\/articles\/1888\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governor Spanberger Statement Marking Four Years Since Dobbs Ruling - Reproductive Freedom Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/reprofreedomalliance.org\/articles\/1888\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Reproductive Freedom Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-24T14:30:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/reprofreedomalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Legislation.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"872\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reprofreedomalliance.org\\\/articles\\\/1888\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reprofreedomalliance.org\\\/articles\\\/1888\\\/\",\"name\":\"Governor Spanberger Statement Marking Four Years Since Dobbs Ruling - 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