Lawsuit Could Stop Virginia Amendment for Abortions Up to Birth

Virginia legislators broke the law to place a pro-abortion amendment on the ballot. Liberty Counsel just filed suit!

Proverbs 8:36 says, “those who hate me [God] love death.” Sadly, the death-lovers in the Democrat Virginia General Assembly were so blind and hurried in their bloodlust for the lives of innocent children that they willfully ignored and violated clear standing law to get an abortion amendment on the ballot.

The Virginia legislature’s ruse is to amend the state’s constitution to make abortion up until birth a state constitutional “right” for anyone — even minors — and they broke the law to do it.

Liberty Counsel represents Charla Bansley, District 3 supervisor for the Bedford County Board of Supervisors, who discovered the Virginia legislature’s unlawful attempt to increase the slaughter of innocents and is suing to stop it.

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The Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature wants to amend the state constitution to guarantee that “every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including the ability to make and carry out decisions relating to one’s own prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, abortion care, miscarriage management, and fertility care.”

The measure would even bring back the gruesome late-term abortions where fully viable children are murdered in the womb even at 40 weeks’ gestation — the time the mother would naturally give birth.

That’s right — a child ready to be born, and fully able to live outside the womb, could be aborted even just hours before the mother goes into labor.

This isn’t women’s rights; it’s murder of innocent, viable children!

We caught them!

In their haste to kill more unborn children — even as those children are hours or even minutes away from a natural birth — the Virginia legislature ignored and skipped the mandatory, multi‑step process established by the Virginia Constitution and related statutes — requirements that the Virginia Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized as essential for any valid constitutional change.

For more than two centuries, Virginia has required constitutional amendments to undergo a deliberate and clearly defined process. In Coleman v. Pross (1978), the Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed that although the people hold broad power to amend their Constitution, such amendments are only valid if one of the specific amendment processes outlined in the Constitution is strictly followed. The court underscored that compliance with these procedures is not optional; it is foundational to the integrity and stability of Virginia’s constitutional system.

When the Virginia General Assembly approved the amendment language, they willfully chose to skip a critical statutory step in the amendment process, perhaps hoping no one would notice their scheme.

But WE DID NOTICE.

And we are fighting to stop their abortion-up-until-birth agenda.

Our lawsuit, Bansley v. Nardo, et al., challenges the procedural validity of the proposed late-term abortion amendment to the Virginia Constitution, and seeks to stop this outrageous pro-death initiative before it can claim even one young life.

LifeNews Note: Mat Staver is the Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action and Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.