VanValkenburg’s opponent, Republican Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant, is an OB-GYN who said she supports access to abortion through 15 weeks and afterward only in cases of rape, incest, severe fetal anomalies, and to save the mother’s life.
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Dunnavant argued that medical advances since current Virginia law was written have moved the date of viability earlier in a pregnancy.
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