Abortion is legal in Virginia. Can cities restrict it anyway?
) have passed. But those proclamations aren’t enforceable, which makes Bristol’s proposal unique: “This is the first [local anti-abortion proposal] in Virginia to have any teeth to it, to have any sort of force of law,” Hetzler says.
Hetzler takes this issue seriously. “The Dillon Rule is pretty well-established, but it hasn’t been directly applied to the issue of abortion before,” he says. “We don’t have a court case to point to, but we have court cases that we can analogize to, one of which is a Virginia Supreme Court case that I think makes this almost a slam dunk.”is from 1989, when a landfill was slated to come to Prince William County.
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