Two years after the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision which reversed Roe v. Wade,Virginia faces a dangerous reality. We are the last state in the Southern region of America still permitting abortions throughout pregnancy with few regulations in place. Abortion promoters and facilities operate with virtually no oversight. Chemical abortion drugs are sent to women without any required physical examination before taking these powerful drugs. New abortion businesses ...

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The U.S Supreme Court released a decision today in the case Food and Drug Administration (FDA), et al. v. the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) et al. regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decisions in 2016 and 2021 to loosen regulations of the abortion drug mifepristone and whether the challengers had standing to bring their case. Sadly, the Court unanimously ruled that the challenger, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, did not ...

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Camp Joshua 2024

Camp Joshua is Back! VSHL is once again holding our pro-life youth camp.  It is a fun and informative time for pro-life teens to meet other pro-lifers and learn how they can stand up and help protect unborn children.  Camp Joshua is open to high school students, from rising 9th graders to recently graduated High School Seniors. Full details including exact arrival and departure times are being finalized. Catholic and Protestant Church ...

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The results of the 2024 Helen Donovan Memorial Essay Contest are complete. Once again the young pro-life voices in the state are showing how thoughtful they are on pro-life issues. We are grateful for the participation of all those who submitted an essay this year. This essay titled Promoting the Culture of Life won third place and is by Isobella Jameson. My podcast, Shifted Voices, would reach all different social media platforms such ...

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Helen M. Donovan

The results of the 2024 Helen Donovan Memorial Essay Contest are complete. Once again the young pro-life voices in the state are showing how thoughtful they are on pro-life issues. We are grateful for the participation of all those who submitted an essay this year. This essay titled Promoting the Culture of Life won second place and is by Ella Douglas. "So God created man in his own image, in the image ...

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Helen M. Donovan

First Place: 2024 Annual Helen M. Donovan Memorial Award Essay Contest

The results of the 2024 Helen Donovan Memorial Essay Contest are complete. Once again the young pro-life voices in the state are showing how thoughtful they are on pro-life issues. We are grateful for the participation of all those who submitted an essay this year. This essay by Annalise Dean won first place and is titled Promoting the Culture of Life. There are 7.91 billion people on this Earth. Of this population, ...

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The Biden White House issued a proclamation that declared National Women’s Health Week the week of May 12-18. Curiously, the statement called for unlimited abortion access as part of women’s health care. Celebrating motherhood and women’s health in the same week seems logical, but the logic is twisted by the current debate about abortion. The argument that abortion is critical to women’s health is a masterful stroke of manipulation — manipulation ...

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Virginia Society for Human Life applauds Pro-life Governor Youngkin for vetoing two bills that allowed abortionists and other abortion business providers to evade valid laws in other states. The effect of these bills would have been to place Virginia in a position of ignoring the right of other states to hold reckless abortionists accountable for the crimes they may have committed in other states that have passed protective pro-life laws. ...

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Virginia Society for Human Life is going to be watching the outcome of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court about the use of Mifepristone which causes the death of unborn babies early in pregnancy very carefully. Currently Virginia women are not required to have a medical exam or any in person contact with medical personnel before being sent the abortion drugs in the mail. "Women and babies are in harm’s way ...

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