by VSHL November 17, 2024

Please make your 2025 VSHL Membership Dues payment without delay. Your 2025 Virginia Society for Human Life Membership is a symbol of your resolve to stand up for the unborn and the grave threats they face from the Abortion-until-Birth Amendment to the Virginia Constitution. Your membership dues are vital to our on-going efforts to protect unborn babies here in Virginia.  Radical pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and their allies in the Virginia General Assembly are pushing ...

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by VSHL August 26, 2024
Pro-Life Youth Programs

*Rescheduled until Spring* Pro-Life Youth Summit

Please Note: EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING   VIRGINIA PRO-LIFE LEADERSHIP YOUTH SUMMIT Calling All Middle & High School Students! JOIN US FOR A ONE DAY PRO-LIFE LEADERSHIP YOUTH SUMMIT WHERE YOU WILL BE EQUIPPED TO BE LEADERS IN CREATING THE CULTURE OF LIFE HERE IN VIRGINIA! When: Saturday, October 19, 2024 Time: 10AM until 5PM Where: Staunton, VA @ the former Augusta Military Academy Cost: $25.00 per student Lunch will be provided Agenda Meet your VA Representatives Hear panelists discuss results of ...

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by VSHL June 24, 2024

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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by VSHL June 14, 2024

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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by VSHL June 6, 2024
Pro-Life Youth Programs

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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by VSHL May 23, 2024

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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by VSHL May 23, 2024
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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by VSHL May 23, 2024
Helen M. Donovan
Pro-Life Youth Programs

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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by VSHL May 22, 2024

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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