Advocates deliver 37,000+ signatures in support of contraception protections
Sen. Gazala Hashmi, center, holds the over 37,000 signatures collected supporting an effort to ensure access to contraception in the Commonwealth. She was joined, from left, by Rae Pickett, Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Lara Bury and Penny Blue of Red Wine and Blue, Delegates Rae Cousins and Destiny LeVere Bolling, Tyanna Haynes of Birth in Color and Delegate Mike Jones. (Credit: Brad Kutner)
After some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court suggested they should reconsider precedent protecting access to contraceptives, Virginia Democrats passed a law that would protect such access.
But the governor has yet to sign it, and advocates want him to act, as Brad Kutner reports from Richmond.