The pro-abortion forces in Virginia are nothing if not masters at hyperbole. That, or downright Orwellian. Today, they held a news conference at the General Assembly Building to reinforce their message of choice since their stunning defeat on the abortion … Read more>

In addition to Governor Bob McDonnell’s amendment to HB 2434, which would restrict Virginia’s health insurance exchanges under ObamaCare from covering abortion services, Governor McDonnell also added an amendment to reinsert abstinence funding in the Virginia budget. This funding … Read more>

The Senate Education and Health Committee yesterday reported to the floor SB 967, legislation cleverly designed by Planned Parenthood that attacks abstinence centered education programs. The vote was 11-4 with Republican Senator Fred Quayle (R-13, Suffolk) voting with … Read more>

Although people realize Planned Parenthood is pro-abortion, many might not know what its motivation is and why it is so vehemently against abstinence education. For example, in 2007, despite abstinence-education funding from governors of both parties, then-Governor Tim Kaine, at Planned … Read more>

The reaction to Tuesday’s announcement that Governor Bob McDonnell has applied for federal funds for abstinence-centered education has been intense (see Washinton Post Virginia Politics Blog). As you would suspect, Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia have opened rhetorical fire … Read more>

Who says elections don’t have consequences. It’s taken three long years, but what a difference it makes. From a governor who eliminated funding for a time-tested way of teaching children how to grow up to one who restores it… Read more>

Governor Bob McDonnell has applied for abstinence-only education grants made available by the Obama administration — oddly enough — the same type of grants rejected by his predecessor Tim Kaine, which ended years of funding abstinence education in Virginia  under governors of … Read more>

Last week the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a group of school childrenhad addressed the Henrico County School Board, saying that the state needs to change the guidelines for its sex education curriculum from abstinence-based to the model promoted by … Read more>

Whadaya know? We lead off the news with two articles and a radio interview about TFF Action’s General Assembly Report Card (click here to order, download or print). The WRVA interview marks the News Stand’s first radio audio. The … Read more>

Yesterday the House and Senate were supposed to finish work on their respective budgets, laying the groundwork for the budget debate over the final two weeks. Things do not, however, always go as planned in Richmond.

While the Senate postponed its budget … Read more>