By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) The pro-abortion ERA will be voted on in both the State Senate and House of Delegates soon. Please use this link on the VSHL Legislative Action Center to send an email to your State Senator and Delegate urging them to oppose the pro-Abortion ERA. …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) They aren’t wasting any time moving their extremist agenda forward. The list of bills already introduced by pro-abortion leadership in the Senate and House of Delegates include three versions of the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment, a bill to remove the sensible parental consent law, …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) We have all had a few days to stop and take stock of the elections two weeks ago. The outcome has only begun to send all the shockwaves that some of us anticipate come the opening of the 2020 General Assembly. Pro-abortion bills popping …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) So many TV ads, political mailers, phone calls, tweets, texts, emails, and social media messages. It seems like Election Day will never come. But it does, and it is tomorrow! Everything that we have worked so hard to do in order to protect innocent …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) One after another pro-abortion Hollywood celebrity has chimed in or actually made an appearances in neighborhoods in Virginia where many candidates for the General Assembly are in very tight races. Actor Alec Baldwin, a member of the Board of Directors for the liberal, pro-abortion …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) Only days ago, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new, first of its kind law that will require all tax-payer funded public universities to make chemical abortion available to students. That’s right, the Governor of California has decided it is reasonable to force the …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) Radical pro-abortion politicians like Governor Ralph Northam, abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and their activist supporters are determined to push for abortion-on-demand up until birth and beyond, all paid for with YOUR taxpayer dollars. We are just as determined to prevent Virginia from becoming …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) This year’s VSHL Camp Joshua 2019 is over and was another great success. The campers had fun, made friends, heard interesting speakers on a range of topics and began their training to become the pro-life leaders of the future. The comments from one camper …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life Editor’s note. Even if you do not have teenagers of your own, you can help Camp Joshua by donating here. This comment from a recent Camp Joshua attendee will give you some idea why Camp Joshua is so important. “While I was convicted in my …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life In a three hour session Thursday held in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Henry E. Hudson heard the closing arguments in the case of Falls Church Medical Center, LLC v. Oliver. The plaintiffs are challenging four Virginia laws on …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, VSHL President Spring in Virginia is always beautiful and no less busy for pro-lifers than any other season. A court case in Richmond, multiple primary elections, speeches to mark the 100 year anniversary of women’s suffrage, the annual VSHL Oratory Contest, and an exhibit booth at the Home Educators Association of …
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By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) Federal District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson, in a shocking decision handed down Monday, struck down a Virginia law that prohibits advanced practice clinicians, including nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants, from performing abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy. Laws requiring that “physicians only” …
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