Virginia is the next big battleground for abortion rights and may send a signal for 2024

Virginia 's odd-year elections are often an indicator of the national mood heading into major election years .

Democrats are banking on abortion rights to be a winning issue, just as it was in 2022 midterms.

Republicans are centering their focus on kitchen table issues, such as cost of living, public safety.

Abortion rights advocates say they are seeing voter support grow as more states impose restrictions.

Virginia Democrats point to two in-state elections since the fall of Roe as showing the potency of the issue.

Democrats are buoyed by the outcome in a half dozen states, including Kentucky and Kansas , where voters opted to protect reproductive rights on abortion-related ballot measures.

Virginia law allows abortion during the first and second trimesters.