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Clear Choice in Race for Virginia Governor.(Brief Article)
Pro-lifers in Virginia know they have a difficult challenge ahead of them as they get ready to elect a new governor this November. However, they're very excited about the prospects of their pro-life candidate, Mark Earley.
Mark Earley served as attorney general since 1997. He resigned the position after receiving the Republican nomination for governor at a statewide convention held in Richmond June 2.
Earley was elected to the state Senate in 1987 where he proceeded to become the primary sponsor of several pieces of pro-life legislation. He was the chief sponsor of a parental notification bill, successfully guiding it through the many minefields laid by opponents of the bill. Earley was also chief patron of three other pro-life bills: to outlaw partial-birth abortion, to prevent assisted suicide, and to make feticide a crime.
In Earley's 1997 race for attorney general, he defeated a pro-abortion opponent who tried to make abortion the issue in the campaign. Earley, who believes abortion should not be allowed unless the mother's life is in danger, received 57% of the vote.
As the state's chief law enforcement officer, he successfully defended Virginia's parental notification law all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. Shortly after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion pill, RU486, Earley ruled that the state's law requiring parental notification also applied to RU486.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Clear Choice in Race for Virginia Governor.(Brief Article)