Virginia Abortions Up to Birth Amendment Would Also Eliminate Parental Rights– www.lifenews.com

Imagine you are the parent of a 13-year-old daughter in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You love and care for your child and you and your spouse work two jobs to provide for your family. Life is busy, with work, school, sports, and other recreation. You are an involved and caring parent, but family time is curtailed and, after all, no family is perfect. Occasionally something goes awry and you face a challenge you didn’t expect — this time it’s the fact that your daughter was pregnant. Was. You only know this because you have taken her to the emergency room hemorrhaging a week after her boyfriend persuaded her to take abortion pills — sent to his doorstep with the full-throated approval of Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) and the Virginia legislature.

Sound far-fetched? We are almost in this condition now. Under current law in the Commonwealth of Virginia, passed by successive Democratic legislatures, abortion is legal in the state until birth. As bad as that law is — and data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute tells us that Virginia had the largest increase in total abortions of any state in 2025 — a new constitutional amendment on the ballot this November, on which voting has already begun, would make matters dramatically worse.