Ghazala Hahmi is the Democratic nominee for Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor. Hashmi has developed a record of social policies that are more appropriate for San Francisco or New York City, than the Commonwealth she is seeking to represent. Her agenda is a direct attack on Virginia’s core values, including the value of life and the right for Virginians to defend themselves.

A champion of abortion extremism

Hashmi’s not just pro-choice, she’s also pro-abortion. She voted against allowing women to access information that would allow them to make an educated choice. also enjoys huge support from the abortion industry. She boasts about Virginia’s abortion industry, which is a haven for women who are unable to murder their babies legally in other states due to right-to life laws.

Hashmi supported the Reproductive Health Protect Act in 2020. The Reproductive Health Protection Act expanded the scope of abortions by including nurse practitioners. The law also removed the 24-hour waiting period and mandatory ultrasounds, which helped to reduce abortions by about 32 percent during the 2010s.

The bill, by expanding eligibility for providers and removing the requirement of in-person counselling, made it easier to mail mifepristone to women and other abortifacients after the FDA approved telehealth procedures the following year.

The Foundation for the Restoration of America conducted a recent study that found that one in ten women who take mifepristone suffer a serious side effect–22 times more than the FDA had predicted.

Hashmi also voted that it is illegal for Virginia extradite doctors performing illegal abortions within their own states. voted that the Virginia Board of Medicine cannot take disciplinary actions against Virginia doctors performing illegal abortions outside Virginia.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, proposed a moderate abortion policy that would make it illegal after 15 weeks, around the time when an unborn child can feel pain, with exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Hashmi , however, voted in January 2023 to table SB 1385 for an indefinite period of time, the senate’s version of this reasonable proposition.

She is certainly seen as a champion by the pro-abortion movement. She has received endorsements by Emily’s List, and a former director of primary care at Planned Parenthood. She also received the “Defender of Choice Award” from the radical anti-abortion group Repro Rising, and in-kind donations worth $85,000 by Vote for Choice PAC.

Dangerously anti Second Amendment

Hashmi has a radical gun control agenda. Her positions on the Second Amendment are beyond simple safety measures. She would abuse her position as lieutenant governor to violate the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms and keep them, putting people in danger in their homes and public.

She supports extending the red flag law of the Commonwealth. They can be used to settle personal disputes, leaving people vulnerable against those who would harm them. This law could be tightened, removing the necessary flexibility that local law enforcement has in its implementation.

Hashmi joined with her Democrat colleagues to vote for a ban on firearms in public spaces following a shootout in a bus stop. As if the perpetrators were concerned about “gun free zones”, such a policy could leave law-abiding guns owners in similar situations unable defend themselves, their family, or innocent bystanders.

Hashmi is also calling for laws on gun storage, which may cost lives. Gun owners who can’t quickly access a loaded weapon during a home invasion are defeating the purpose of having a gun to defend themselves.

She also supports a ban on “assault weaponry”. She voted in favor of SB 1 last year. This would have made anyone unable to purchase, sell, transport, or possess semi-automatic weapons and magazines with high capacity after July 1, 2025. The law would also have made it illegal to possess or any semiautomatic firearms, regardless of their manufacture date. Thankfully, Gov. Youngkin vetoed the bill and dozens other gun-grabbing legislation Hashmi had supported.

Ironically, Hashmi , who voted to abolish the 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions, also voted in favor of a 5-day wait for gun purchases.

Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor is not a purely ceremonial post. The lieutenant governor is the final vote in a tie senate. Only a Democrat Lieutenant Governor’s vote broke the tie and allowed for the Reproductive Health Act to pass. If Hashmi is elected in November, it’s likely that she will cast the final vote criminalizing gun ownership and making Virginia the most abortion-friendly state in the nation.