Category: Abortion, Feminism, Women’s Rights
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These Virginia Constitutional Amendments Need Opposition, Not Neutrality
A 32-30 vote to remain “neutral” where Republican State Central Committee members couldn’t even put their names to their votes? Unacceptable. by Shaun Kenney Now I will grant this. Never has a unit committee or state committee endorsement swung an election, at least not in recent memory. This is how inconsequential votes from the Republican…
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Lawsuit Challenges Virginia’s Abortion Amendment as Deceptive
Physicians are suing to block a ballot question they say conceals the true scope of the legislation. by Victoria Manning A group of physicians and other medical professionals along with a local voter have filed a lawsuit challenging an abortion-related constitutional amendment on Virginia’s ballot this November. The complaint alleges that the ballot question adopted…
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A Twisted Sense of Priorities
Fairfax leaders favor illegal-immigrant rights over girls’ safety in schools. by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures On March 7, Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School, was arrested for allegedly fondling the genitals of multiple female students in the hallways during school hours. More than two weeks…
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They’re Baaaack!
by Kerry Dougherty I can’t be the only Virginian experiencing a form of PTSD after two days of the all-Democrat General Assembly session. It’s as if the loathsome Ralph Northam was running the show again. You know, the guy who closed churches, masked toddlers and supported infanticide. Despite all their talk about “affordability” – the…
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Virginia’s Most Conservative City Births Plan to Thwart Abortion Tourism
Lynchburg is proving that the fight against abortion starts at the local level. by Hayden Ludwig Planned Parenthood boasted earlier this year that “Virginia is the last state in the South without an extreme abortion ban.” That’s a campaign consultant’s way of twisting the truth: the Old Dominion has the most liberal abortion laws south of the…
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Virginia Feminists Resist the Gender Borg
by Margot Heffernan It’s a dangerous time to be a woman, a female, regardless of age. I’ll tell you why: “Transgenderism,” the grand ideology that has corrupted virtually every corner of our society is a straight up threat to everyone, but especially to women and girls. It is a lie, a hoax, a jacked-up scam promoted…
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High School Abortion Coverup: Read the Tick-Tock.
School district learned of abortion scandal just last week? Teacher says she warned the school district seven times. by Asra Nomani There is an important story happening in Fairfax County, Va., about a school system’s social worker who allegedly arranged and financed an abortion by a 17-year-old girl without her legal guardian’s consent or knowledge.…
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Fairfax School Staff Accused of Procuring Abortions for Students Without Notifying Parents
by Kerry Dougherty If ABC news reports are true – that Fairfax county school staff arranged and bankrolled abortions for pregnant students in 2021 without informing the girls’ parents — the state should come in and take control of the district. People need to go to prison for this. FAIRFAX, Va. (7News) — Fairfax County…
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Hashmi a Radical on Abortion, Gun Control
by Jacob Grandstaff State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, the Democrats’ pick for Virginia’s Lt. Governor, has cultivated a social policy record more suited to San Francisco and New York City than the commonwealth she seeks to represent. From her attacks on the sanctity of life to her assault on Virginians’ Second Amendment rights, her agenda represents…
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Why So Few Female School Superintendents? Bias, If You Believe the RTD.
by James A. Bacon It appears that there is a “disparity” between the percentage of female teachers in Virginia public schools and the percentage of female school superintendents. About 82% of classroom teachers are women, but only 40% of school division superintendents are, reports Anna Bryson with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. What causes that discrepancy? According…
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Not a Satire: Refracting the Black Reproductive
by James A. Bacon I bring to your attention a flier promoting an event — “Refracting the Black Reproductive” — held at the University of Virginia last week. My intent is not to critique the substance of what Samantha Pinto, an English professor from the University of Texas at Austin, had to say. To discuss…
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Senate Dems Administer Severe Butt-Kicking
by James A. Bacon Yesterday the Virginia Senate passed the “Right to Contraception Act,” guaranteeing Virginians “the right to obtain contraceptives and to engage in contraception,” in a party-line vote with Republicans in opposition. In the run-up to passage of the bill, Senate Democrats engineered a vote that put Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, the likely…
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Whose Kids Are They Anyway?
by Kerry Dougherty It’s official. Virginia Democrats have declared war on families. And they’re just warming up. So far, in the nascent General Assembly session, they’ve introduced two appalling anti-family measures. More to come, no doubt. The first is a proposed constitutional amendment that’s an abortion enthusiast’s wet dream. It would enshrine in Virginia’s constitution…
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Three Major Proposed Constitutional Amendments
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The 2025 General Assembly will be taking up constitutional amendments on three hot button issues—abortion, voting rights of felons, and same-sex marriage. In Virginia, to amend the state constitution, the General Assembly must agree to the proposed amendment twice, with an intervening election for the House of Delegates. If the proposal is…
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Tackling Sexual Violence with Woke Bureaucracy
by James A. Bacon Every perceived problem in America today seems to require a bureaucratic response — either a new government program or, in the case of higher education, a new university program. Accordingly, Virginia Tech is addressing the challenge of sexual violence by creating a Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Office. Virginia Tech seeks…