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 ...
Read MoreOlivia Gans Turner was interviewed on Women of Grace. Click here to see the interview.
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read MoreThe 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, ...
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read MoreVirginia 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. ...
Read MoreVirginia 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 ...
Read MoreThe pro-abortion Democrat majority in the Virginia Senate voted today to pass a bill, SB71, the Contraception and Reproductive Care Act (a so-called shield law). The vote was along party line 21 -18. This legislation will make it possible for abortionists and bad actors of all kinds to practice unchecked in the Commonwealth of Virginia, putting women and babies in harm’s way. "SB 716, patroned by Sen. Carroll Foy, D-33, is ...
Read More"A recurring theme in the scenarios outlined is an erroneous application of the laws regarding abortion as they apply to situations regarding life of the mother and miscarriage. I am aware of no state in which physicians are unable to provide care for women whose lives are threatened by a pregnancy complication or who have lost their children to miscarriage. However, misinterpretation of laws can lead to delays in needed ...
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