On Wednesday Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered Virginia State Police to open a “full criminal investigation into allegations of school-funded abortions in Fairfax County.” Gov. Youngkin’s directive followed WJLA investigative reporter Nick Minock’s blockbuster story that “school officials at Fairfax County’s Centerville High School arranged and bankrolled abortions for girls without so much as a phone call to their parents back in 2021.”
“I am deeply concerned with the allegations that Fairfax County Public Schools officials arranged for minors to get abortions without parental consent and may have misused public funds to pay for them,” Gov. Youngkin said. “I am directing the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation to open a full criminal investigation into the matter immediately.”
Yesterday Minock ran another story, raising further questions about who knew what when.
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When he first asked Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) when they learned of online reports claiming that school officials arranged and bankrolled abortions for students without their parents’ knowledge or consent, they told the 7News Reporter that it was last week. However, in Thursday’s story
7News reviewed documentation that raised new questions about when Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) first knew about allegations that school staff were arranging abortions for students.
An email reviewed by 7News showed a teacher informing the then-Centreville High School Principal nearly three years ago that a school social worker allegedly facilitated an abortion for a student.
Minock asked FCPS about the timeline and got the same runaround as he did the first time.
“FCPS is fully cooperating with the Virginia State Police investigation, and it would not be appropriate to comment further on these 2021 allegations,” FCPS said in response on Thursday. “At no time would this alleged situation, as described, be acceptable in Fairfax County Public Schools. We remain focused on preparations for the start of the school year – with an ongoing commitment to academic excellence and opportunity for each and every student in a safe and welcoming environment.”
Minock asked Youngkin about FCPS’s explanation when they first learned about the alleged school involvement.
“The Bureau of Criminal Investigation at State Police will fully uncover this entire circumstance, and if there has been some sort of coverup, they will find out,” Youngkin told Minock. “That’s why it’s so important that we have them involved to make sure that we get to the bottom of these shocking allegations.”
Minock reported in his first story that “FCPS’ policy does not require, or even suggest, that FCPS employees must inform the parents about those conversations.” With that as a backdrop, Minock asked “if he thinks Virginia lawmakers need to pass legislation to require schools to notify parents if their teens ask school staff to arrange abortion services for them.”
Youngkin response was long and passionate:
“Our administrators and our teachers need to recognize that parents have a fundamental right to make decisions in their children’s lives, and therefore, if they are advising them or counseling them on these most important issues, these are moments where parents should and must be involved in their children’s lives. We have been talking about this in Fairfax County for the last three and a half years, and this is again another circumstance where I firmly believe that parents must be at the head of the table for their children’s lives.
“At the end of the day, children belong to parents. They don’t belong to the school system, they don’t belong to government, they belong to families. And this is why this circumstance has so upset me, that we are going to make sure that we get to the bottom of this, and if there has been criminal misconduct that has taken place here, we are going to find out. And that’s why I’ve directed the state police to lead this investigation through their Bureau of Criminal Investigations.”
According to Olivia Gans Turner, president of the Virginia Society for Human Life,
Current law in the Commonwealth requires parental consent or a judicial bypass before a minor girl may get an abortion. It appears that neither was acquired in the two cases that have emerged in Fairfax. The fear that many have is that these cases may not be singular events
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
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