Thousands of Pro-Life People Join Virginia March for Life

On April 22, on Veto day for the General Assembly about 5,000 people came to Richmond to be seen and acknowledged by their elected officials in the General Assembly. They came from every part of Virginia from the coastline to the mountains. It was another testament to the reality that Virginians are upset with the radical pro-abortion agenda being forced on to the Commonwealth this year.

Several pro-life GA members came out before the day’s Session began to join with the crowd.  Del Karen Hamilton, (R), spoke on behalf of those brave legislators who have been defending innocent life throughout the year in the General Assembly despite huge opposition.

The peaceful Rally and March was conducted as always without incident through the streets surrounding the Capitol Square. Those who came were encouraged to take the energy of the day home and share with others the risks of the Unlimited Abortion Amendment and to tell them to VOTE NO when voting starts this Fall.

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Unfair Redistricting Amendment Goes to Virginia Supreme Court

The vote on April 21 to gerrymander the U. S. Congressional District by forcing a new unwelcome State Constitutional Amendment on Virginia voters has been challenged and is currently awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court of Virginia. The day after the election that provided the “Yes” vote a very narrow victory, a court in Tazewell Virginia, heard a challenge to the vote that prevents the results from being certified until the Virginia Supreme Court hands down its ruling. The case was heard in the SCOVA on Monday April 27. No decision has yet been determined. Meanwhile there are four other legal challenges to the legitimacy of the vote that must make their way through the system.

VSHL waits hopefully that the results will preserve our current status and protect the districts that are currently held by four pro-life Representatives.

United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Restores Protective Regulation on Dangerous Abortion Drug.  

The ruling of the Court on May 1st applies to the distribution of the abortion drug Mifepristone which for the past few years since the Covid epidemic has been allowed under federal law to be distributed in the mail without any doctor examination, including here in Virginia. Without a doctor’s examination to verify a pregnancy it is possible that a woman who is not actually pregnant or who is experiencing an ectopic pregnancy may receive mifepristone and suffer dangerous, even life-threatening side effects.

Chemical Abortions have become the number one method of abortion in recent years.  The FDA is currently reviewing whether or not to restore the pre-Covid rules to the distribution of the drug. This is an important ruling that VSHL will watch carefully. Read more from NRLC HERE:

UPDATE!!! 

From National Right to Life as of Monday May 4^th:   “The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a temporary order allowing continued mail distribution of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol while litigation proceeds. The order is set to expire within days as the Court considers next steps in the case.”

More information HERE
New case filed to challenge the language of the unlimited abortion Ballot

Last week a case focused on the deceptive language of the Ballot Measure create by the general assembly and signed by Gov. Spanberger in February for HJ1 and SJ1, the unlimited abortion amendment was filed in Tazewell Circuit Court by the Founding Freedoms law center. The intention is to ask the Court to rule on the ballot language as it does not accurately reflect what the amendment will do to abortion law in Virginia. They content that this language is deliberately unclear and will cause confusion among the voters. Let us hope that the case is successful and helps defeat passage at the polls.

The Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC), the legal arm of The Family Foundation of Virginia, one of the members of the state pro-life coalition, filed suit asking a Virginia court to declare that the proposed state constitutional amendment on “reproductive freedom,” set to appear on the November 3 ballot, violates the Virginia Constitution because the question put to voters is materially misleading. The suit also seeks a permanent injunction barring enforcement of the amendment if it is approved.

LifeNews Note: Olivia Gans is the director of the Virginia Society for Human Life.