Lashrecse Aird defeated the last anti-abortion Democrat, Joe Morrissey, in the Virginia Senate primary on Tuesday, delivering a big win for reproductive rights.
State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, left, and Lashrecse Aird hug after Aird’s victory speech during an election night party at the IBEW Local 666 in Highland Springs, Va., Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Photo:Nicolas Galindo/Richmond Times-Dispatch
Aird defeating incumbent state Sen. Joe Morrissey—who is vocally anti-abortion and uses the rightwing misnomer “pro-life” to describe his politics—was critical in Virginia. In 2020 Morrissey was the only Senate Democrat to vote against the state’sto bring a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights to the ballot box, an increasingly common way to get abortion rights codified at the state level.
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