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Tim Kaine on Reducing Abortions in Virginia
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I have a faith-based opposition to abortion. As governor, I will work in good faith to reduce abortions by:

  1. Enforcing the current Virginia restrictions on abortion and passing an enforceable ban on partial birth abortion that protects the life and health of the mother;
  2. Fighting teen pregnancy through abstinence-focused education;
  3. Ensuring women's access to health care (including legal contraception) and economic opportunity; and
  4. Promoting adoption as an alternative for women facing unwanted pregnancies.

We should reduce abortion in this manner, rather than by criminalizing women and doctors.

Too often politicians are interested in scoring political points, rather than in reducing the number of abortions. Many of the legislative proposals introduced in the General Assembly, like the ones to require unnecessary building standards for doctor's offices that perform abortions, are just political grandstanding. They encourage division and lawsuits rather than contributing to the goal of reducing abortions.