HENRICO, VA – Today, on the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Henrico County’s top prosecutor and congressional candidate Shannon Taylor issued the following statement:
“Four years ago, the Supreme Court ripped away a constitutional right that American women had relied on for fifty years. I was one of the first prosecutors in the country to say I would never prosecute a woman or her doctor for seeking or providing abortion care — and I meant it,” said Taylor. “Rob Wittman has spent his career voting to take that right away. He is an anti-choice extremist, plain and simple, and the women of Virginia’s First District deserve better.
“In Congress, I will fight to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade, protect access to contraception and IVF, and stop extremists from criminalizing women or their doctors. Virginians deserve a representative who will defend their freedoms, not one who votes to take them away.”
ABOUT SHANNON:
Shannon Taylor is a battle-tested prosecutor with 25 years of experience and a 90% conviction rate in homicide cases, taking on the toughest threats to Virginia families and delivering justice. A native of Charlottesville and graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Richmond Law School, she began her career as a prosecutor in Richmond before serving as a Special Assistant in the U.S. Attorney’s office. In 2011, she flipped the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office from Republican to Democrat, becoming the first woman elected to the role. She has since been re-elected three times, proving she knows how to win tough races.
As Commonwealth’s Attorney, Taylor has pioneered programs to support victims of human trafficking, created a task force to tackle the opioid epidemic, and led prosecutors statewide in pledging not to criminalize women or doctors for abortion care. She has worked alongside law enforcement to keep families safe, fought fraud that harms working people, and partnered with gun safety advocates to take illegal guns off the streets.
Shannon Taylor has built her career on protecting Virginians and delivering justice for families regardless of their politics.
For more on Shannon Taylor’s campaign, visit ShannonTaylorVA.com.
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