Abortion will be allowed up until the moment of birth for any reason. Currently Virginia allows abortions into the third trimester, with restrictions. That will no longer be the case under this amendment.

Women choosing abortion run personal risk as all normal health safety standards are not permitted. True informed consent including the opportunity to see medical records like an ultrasound is illegal.

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.

Virginia will become the abortion capitol of the south. Since Dobbs, there has already been a 30% increase in out-of-state abortions occurring in Virginia.

Eliminates the right of parents to know about or consent to their young child’s invasive abortion surgery.

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.

Under 50 years of Roe, the view of life decayed among Americans. Under this amendment, the respect of 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.

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 woman.