What Virginia's legislative elections could spell for 2024 on abortion rights

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/ [login to see] /what-virginias-legislative-elections-could-spell-for-2024-on-abortion-rights
Abortion rights has been a winning issue for Democrats across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. In Virginia, Republican candidates are test driving a new messaging strategy around abortion as voters decide whether to maintain divided state government.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who won in an upset in 2021, is leading messaging around abortion for Virginia Republicans. They have adopted much of his position: a 15-week abortion ban, which includes exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.

His strategy is aimed at combating the image of the GOP as extreme on the issue, something that helped Democratic candidates in the 2022 midterm elections. Virginia Democrats, energized by the fall of Roe, won key areas that Youngkin had previously carried.