by Dick Hall-Sizemore
Governor Youngkin recently told a forum organized by the Family Foundation that life begins at conception. I agree with that statement.
He went on to say that he wanted to “protect life”. However, he said that he would be willing to settle for a bill that prohibits abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
According to the CDC, there were 15,582 abortions in Virginia in 2019, the latest year for which there is data. (If the abortion data is included on the Virginia Department of Health website, it is well hidden.) Of that number, only 90 (less than one percent) were performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. If life begins at conception, as the Governor says he believes, why aren’t those almost 15,500 lives that were aborted (killed) before the 21st week of pregnancy as valuable as the 90 lives that would have been spared under the Governor’s policy? Continue reading