Over the course of one week, a single story has once again shaken the confidence of Virginia parents in whether they can trust school staff members to respect their rights as parents.
Published last week by 7News investigative reporter Nick Minock, the story addresses allegations that a Northern Virginia high school staff member sidestepped Virginia’s parental consent law to enable a minor girl to get an abortion. The allegations have been simmering for three years in Fairfax County but only made national headlines last week! Regardless of their personal opinions about abortion, it set alarm bells ringing in the minds of Virginia parents.
Parents should be able to trust school staff to respect their rights to be involved when their own children face critical life decisions. Minock’s account that attracted broad commentary online and in the mainstream media is shocking for many reasons.
Did a school social worker keep the girls’ pregnancies secret from their parents and guardians? Did she counsel these minor girls about how to get an abortion? Did the staff member pay for the abortions with school funds? Most alarming, did school administrators know about the abortions and collude to cover them up?
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In response to the rapidly developing story, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin called for a full investigation by the State Police. Parents all over Virginia need to know how this may have happened and whether it is still happening.
The unfortunate fact is that, although Virginia does have a parental consent law in place, there have long been concerns raised by parents’ groups that it may not be followed.
Beyond the immediate story, there is an even more nightmarish threat to Virginia parents’ right to know before their minor daughters can get an abortion.
That is a proposed so-called “Right to Reproductive Freedom” Amendment, which will make unlimited abortion up to birth a part of the Virginia Constitution. This threatens to eliminate not only the current parental consent law but also prevent any legitimate oversight of how abortions are practiced in Virginia in the future.
The amendment passed its first step during the 2025 General Assembly session. It must pass again in 2026, but that depends on the 2025 elections. A shift in the majority in the House of Delegates could prevent second passage which will stop this effort of abortion proponents who are determined to make Virginia the abortion capital of the south.
Already six new abortion facilities have opened across the state. Travel into Virginia for abortions and access to chemical abortions has expanded rapidly since the Dobbs decision.
Last winter, every Democrat member of the House of Delegates voted for the amendment and refused to amend the bill to ensure that our parental consent law would be preserved. This in spite of attorneys for a House Committee admitted that the language of the amendment did indeed open a door to court challenges to our law that could ultimately strip parents of their right to help their minor daughters make this vital decision about their own grandchild.
So, what does this all mean for concerned Virginia parents right now? This is an election year. Early voting begins in just one month.
Parents can vote to protect their right to guide their own daughters by rejecting any incumbent candidate for the House of Delegates who voted for this insidious amendment last winter. They can support those candidates who voted to stop this extreme amendment or are willing to do so if elected. Ask your candidate where they stand on a parent’s right to know and if they will vote to defeat this amendment.
Let’s all hope that justice will be served in this case out of Fairfax, but even more so let’s open our eyes and do what must be done to protect our daughters and hold on to our rights as parents.
LifeNews Note: Olivia Gans is the director of the Virginia Society for Human Life.
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