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Home/Biblical and Theological/The 2026 Virginia Abortion Amendment

The 2026 Virginia Abortion Amendment

When we ask where the Church was when the forces of Darkness perpetuated a genocide of the unborn, the answer should be “Am I not sending you?”

Written by Bruce Schlesman | Saturday, February 7, 2026

We’ve witnessed a culture of death cemented into law, state after state. We cannot allow another state to fall under its shroud of darkness. A stand must be made. It is our duty to stand on biblical truth and fight against the darkness.

 

In the spring of 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, delivering a momentous victory for Life. This decision put the onus on states to decide their own abortion laws. Millions prayed for and fought for this. Republicans campaigned on such a promise for fifty-plus years.

Since the Dobbs decision in 2022, the pro-life movement was the dog that caught the car—and had no plan for what came next. The ideological Left did have one. Since Dobbs, the Left has introduced amendments to sixteen state constitutions to allow unlimited, unrestricted abortion for anyone—including minors—up until the moment of birth, without any medical, parental, or state oversight. Only three of the sixteen have failed. The states that have abortion enshrined in their state constitutions as of January 2026 include Kansas, Montana, Missouri, Arizona, Ohio, Michigan, New York, California, Colorado, and others.

Even several red states have enshrined constitutional rights to abortion because of these amendments, with no ability for their state legislatures to restrict it at all—even late-term abortions or even to require parental consent. In these states, a lot of Republican voters voted for abortion. A lot of weekly church attendees voted for abortion. Exit polling in Ohio suggested that about a third of weekly church-attending conservatives voted for the abortion amendment.

Over the last fifty years, support for abortion has risen to the point that even some devout Christians support it. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent on an effective propaganda machine convincing legions of people, mostly women, that abortion is necessary. The propaganda is working, and now women are the vanguard of abortion support. According to Pew Research, 64% of women—and 61% of men—say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

The passage of these amendments represented real lives lost. Where these amendments passed, states saw an increase in abortions over the next year. Ohio, for example, saw a 13% increase in abortions—3,500 more children killed—the year after they passed a constitutional right to abortion up to twenty-three weeks. That is thousands of lives lost in every single state when an abortion amendment passed.

 

Virginia’s 2026 Abortion Amendment

Virginia is now staring down the barrel of its own abortion amendment later in 2026. The Commonwealth’s state legislature just passed an amendment to our constitution that would put Virginia’s abortion policy to the left of even California.

The language first defines an “individual’s” right to “reproductive freedom” which “shall not be infringed upon.” By granting any “individual,” a right to an abortion and the vague phrasing of “reproductive freedom,” they have backdoored gender identity and transgender issues into our state constitution. Planned Parenthood, for example, defines “gender affirming care” as reproductive freedom.

This amendment also eliminates any ability to enforce basic health and safety standards on abortion clinics. It would remove the requirements that doctors perform abortions, opening abortions to be performed by anyone, and would then protect those performing abortions from malpractice lawsuits.

It also would invalidate Virginia’s requirement of parental consent for a minor to get an abortion. In the city of Fairfax, Centreville High School facilitated abortions for two minors, pressured them into it, hid this from the parents, and then covered up both incidents.

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