Virginia Democrats Want Abortion In The Constitution. 700,000

Seven hundred thousand Virginians signed on to put something in the state constitution that is already perfectly legal. That’s not a movement; that’s a solution in search of a problem. The current law allows abortion in Virginia, and it has for years. So why the need for a constitutional amendment? Because the goal was never to protect the status quo. It's to make sure no future legislature—one that might actually represent the people's interests—can touch a single aspect of this issue. Democrats are building a permanent, radical guarantee, and they’re doing it with the language of "moderation."

Don’t be fooled by the talk about "personal freedoms." What they are really asking for is a blanket, unrestricted license that runs right up to—and possibly past—the moment of birth. When opponents ask the obvious question about what happens at nine months, the response is a shrug. Because the truth is, they have no answer. They just know they want it enshrined, locked away from any democratic check. It is a profoundly dishonest way to legislate, boiling down a deeply moral issue to a slick campaign slogan. It pretends there are no stakes for the mother or the child.

Virginians should ask themselves why the Democratic machine is forcing this through now. Maybe it’s because they know a transparent, radical position doesn't win at the ballot box, but hiding it inside a ballot question might. The vote will be framed as a binary choice between “freedom” and “government control,” but that’s not the real question. The real question is whether we believe life is worth protecting, or whether it's an inconvenience to be managed. We're being asked to write an extreme view into our founding legal document, and we shouldn't be tricked into signing our conscience away for the sake of political convenience.