Jill Holtzman Vogel

The prospects appear doomed in Virginia this year for Republican-backed legislation that would replace the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning presidential electoral votes with one that awards one vote to the winner of each congressional...

Sen. Janet Howell says if pregnant women should have to get an ultrasound before having an abortion, men should have to undergo additional medical procedures before getting a prescription for erectile dysfunction. Howell expressed her disdain for...

Abortion opponents won a major victory Thursday in Richmond, as the State Senate voted to regulate abortion clinics in Virginia. Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling cast the tie-breaker to approve the measure. Supporters insisted the legislation was not...

-- The new version of the controversial fetal ultrasound measure was approved by the Senate Education and Health Committee Thursday morning. The bill, which passed on an 8-7 party line vote, does not require women to have an invasive transvaginal...

RICHMOND – Three major pieces of socially conservative legislation advanced in the General Assembly Wednesday as the Senate passed a measure requiring women to get an ultrasound before receiving an abortion and the House of Delegates voted to repeal...

RICHMOND – Women would have to undergo an ultrasound and be offered the results of that procedure before they receive an abortion in Virginia under a bill approved Thursday by the Senate Education and Health Committee. As a part of the state's...