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Community Meetings In Jefferson County – Week of Dec 22, 2025

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Amendment 1: Government in Reverse    

May 21, 2019 Tagged With: abortion, reproductive rights

West Virginia Amendment 1, stating that “this Constitution does not protect the right to abortion,” is what I would call “backwards family planning.” We all agree that our goal is to bring children into the world who are wanted and able to thrive. We also agree that government is not just there to protect property, it’s there Read the Full Story >>

WV’s One Remaining Abortion Clinic Mirrors National Trend

May 13, 2017 Tagged With: abortion, healthcare, reproductive rights

The recent closing of the Kanawha (WV) Surgicenter, which left Charleston’s Women’s Health Center (WHC) the state’s only abortion provider, is part of an unnerving national movement decreasing access to women’s reproductive health, experts say. Read the Full Story >>

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