In 2005, he ran for governor on promises to promote adoption, reduce abortion, and support abstinence-only sex education.
While in office, he backed a so-called partial birth abortion ban.
Kaine also bears some responsibility for Virginia’s notorious “informed consent” law, which, among other things, requires women seeking abortions to submit to a medically unnecessary ultrasound.
In 2007, NARAL Pro-Choice America gave Virginia an “F” in its annual reproductive freedom report and called Kaine a “mixed choice” governor.
Two years later, Kaine incensed local and national women’s rights groups by signing a law that allowed the sale of “Choose Life” license plates whose proceeds went to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.
