PARENTAL RIGHTS UNDERMINED
This amendment eliminates the right of parents to know about or consent to their young child’s invasive abortion surgery.
ABORTION TOURISM
Virginia will become the Abortion Capital of the South. Since Dobbs, there has already been a 30% increase in out-of-state abortions occurring in Virginia.
BABIES LEFT TO DIE
Babies who survive an abortion attempt will not be given reasonable, life-saving care. Abortionists will be legally allowed to deliver the baby and let it die on a medical table.
CULTURE OF DEATH
Under 50 years of Roe, the view of life decayed among Americans. Under this amendment, the respect for life will only worsen among Virginians. If we don’t value life at its earliest stages, we won’t value it at end of life.
OVERREGULATION OF PREGNANCY CENTERS
Pregnancy Centers could be guilty of “denying, burdening, or infringing” on a Virginia Citizen’s reproductive freedom by not offering or referring for abortions. Pregancy Centers are already involved in lawsuits in 7 states and counting.
TRANSGENDER SURGERIES
“Reproductive Freedom” is an umbrella term that is not limited to women. Under this amendment men, women, and minors would also have a right to sterilization and therefore transgender surgeries.
COUNTLESS MORE DEATHS
Virginia saw over 35,000 children die in 2023 from abortion, and Virginia’s annual volume of abortions grew 103% in the past 6 years. With no restrictions, no limits and no life-saving measures, the lives lost will only increase.
EXPLOITATION OF EMBRYOS
The open-ended and undefined phrase “reproductive freedom” would allow for the unregulated sale and purchase of human embryos, and unethical research, commodifying human beings and leading to the exploitation of women.
