Bombshell allegations that public school staff arranged secret, taxpayer-funded abortions for minors without informing parents and a newly surfaced video of Abigail Spanberger endorsing assisted suicide are pulling the mask off the Democrat gubernatorial nominee’s “moderate” persona in the final weeks of the Virginia governor’s race.
As first reported by investigative journalist Walter Curt earlier this month, officials at Centreville High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, allegedly facilitated and paid for abortions for at least two underage girls without informing their parents.
One student, then 17, was taken to Fairfax Healthcare Center by school social worker Carolina Díaz, who scheduled the appointment, paid the bill, and told her to keep it secret. The second girl, five months pregnant, says Díaz told her she “had no choice” but to abort her unborn child. The minor then fled the clinic instead, and her family never knew.
Principal Chad Lehman allegedly knew about both incidents but did nothing. Virginia law requires parental notification before a minor undergoes a serious medical procedure like an abortion unless a judge grants a bypass. Curt found no bypasses in either case – indicating that, if the allegations are indeed true, school officials could face civil and criminal liability.
Mrs. Zenaida Perez, a teacher who went on the record on the story, said administrators tried to silence her after one of the girls confided in her. “The girl never wanted that abortion, and her family was never told,” Perez said.
WJLA/7News reached out to Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) about the claims. The district said it had only learned of the “concerning allegations from 2021” the previous day and was “launching an immediate and comprehensive investigation.” When asked whether FCPS staff had ever arranged abortions for students, officials responded, “Not to our knowledge.”
A recording later released by Curt, however, shows Perez telling an FCPS investigator about the allegations months earlier, directly contradicting the district’s claim that it had just learned of them.
On Wednesday, Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin directed the Virginia State Police to launch a full criminal investigation into the allegations, citing concerns that school officials “arranged for minors to get abortions without parental consent and may have misused public funds to pay for them.”
The story has now also become a major issue in the Virginia governor’s race with Election Day just a few months away on November 4. During a live TV interview, Spanberger awkwardly dodged a question about whether parents have a right to know if their minor daughter is undergoing an abortion. Rather than answer the question, she launched into a rambling defense of a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion access.
“I think it is important that we have a constitutional guarantee of access to abortion,” Spanberger said. “Notably the constitutional amendment that is going through the process here in Virginia is similar, almost identical, to what has passed in states like Michigan and Ohio and other states. Very mixed political states, uh, where the issue of, and the question of abortion is a very politically charged one.” Critics were quick to slam Spanberger for her non-answer and for her support for late-term abortion-on-demand.
The amendment to which Spanberger is referring would change the state constitution to guarantee abortion rights for “every individual,” with virtually no restrictions, including in the third trimester of pregnancy. While the amendment says the Commonwealth may regulate third-trimester abortions, in no circumstance can it prohibit one if a doctor deems it necessary to protect the pregnant female’s life or health, or if the fetus is deemed not viable. Because “health” includes mental health and is left entirely to a physician’s discretion, a provider could authorize an abortion at any stage of pregnancy if he or she states that continuing the pregnancy could affect a patient’s mental well-being.
This effectively permits abortion through all three trimesters for both minors and adults. Once such language is in a state constitution, it becomes the highest law in Virginia and overrides any conflicting statute — meaning parental consent and notification laws could be struck down immediately.
Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee for governor this year, has seized on Spanberger’s waffling to draw a clear contrast between herself and her Democrat opponent.
While Spanberger refused to condemn schools facilitating abortions without parental consent, Sears slammed FCPS in a statement, calling it “abhorrent” that the school “provided minors with access to abortion services without any parental knowledge or consent.” Sears has also been unequivocal in pledging to defend life and strengthen parental consent laws so no mother or father is ever blindsided by a secret procedure on their child.
As if this one scandal weren’t bad enough for Spanberger, just days after it broke another video began making the rounds online showing her backing the legalization of assisted suicide in Virginia and saying she would force doctors to participate, regardless of their moral or religious convictions.
“I support and I would support legislation that legalizes the right to die,” Spanberger states in the video, aligning herself with the global assisted suicide movement that has drawn intense backlash in recent years for pressuring veterans with PTSD and physically healthy individuals with psychological disorders to kill themselves, as AMAC Newsline has chronicled.
In Canada, which has one of the most extreme assisted suicide laws in the world, the practice now accounts for one in 20 deaths. According to government data, more than 600 Canadians whose deaths were not deemed “reasonably foreseeable” (as the law stipulates) were euthanized last year.
In some cases, veterans with PTSD have been pressured to take lethal injections in place of treatment, offering a chilling glimpse of where such policies can lead. “Offering MAID is like throwing a cinder block instead of a life preserver,” Canadian veteran Mark Meincke told reporters.
Perhaps even more outrageously, Spanberger said during the same video that doctors should be forced to administer abortions and physician-assisted suicide even if it violates their sincerely held religious beliefs.
“I oppose the ability of religious institutions to put their religious-based ideas on individuals and their health care choices and options,” Spanberger states. “I do not believe that people should have the option to allow their own personal belief to dictate the type of medical care that they are providing their patients.”
Each of these stories in isolation is enough to cause Spanberger’s carefully constructed “moderate” persona to crumble. Together, they completely destroy all notion that Spanberger is not every bit as radical as the most far-left Democrat in New York or California. These are not the positions of a “common-sense soccer mom,” as her campaign branding suggests. It is the record of a deeply entrenched progressive who supports abortion on demand without limits, taxpayer funding for abortion providers, and the legalization of assisted suicide.
As conservative radio host Kerry Dougherty put it in a post on X, “Spanberger is part of a death cult. She would force Catholic hospitals to euthanize patients and provide abortions. Evil.”
Virginia elections are often decided by suburban parents and independent voters — the same coalition that put Glenn Youngkin in the governor’s mansion in 2021 on a wave of parental rights fury. With the Fairfax scandal, Spanberger’s evasions, and her on-camera support for assisted suicide, Republicans have an opening to run that playbook again.
This race isn’t just red versus blue. It’s Virginia’s chance to defend life and parental authority, or surrender both to a radical agenda. Spanberger’s record leaves no mystery: she’s chosen the latter.
Sarah Katherine Sisk is a proud Hillsdale College alumna and a master’s student in economics at George Mason University. You can follow her on X @SKSisk76.
Make no mistake the end of the Democratic agenda means violence, murder, and chaos. They want a culture full of ignorant people who don’t contribute to society, with no work ethic or ambition. The goal is to make our citizens vote for them out of ignorance.
I would like to ask each of those who favor abortion-just what is abortion? Describe it.
One word I say describes it. Begins with the letter, M.
All those involve should be fired, sued and spend time in jail. Time parents put an end to other people taking their rights as parents away from them. You provide all your children’s needs, housing, food, cloths and every other need they have/require, but suddenly these people think they can make life threating decisions without your input. The answer is NO, and they need to be held accountable. IMO
Spanberger is simply standing by and briefly defining parts of the Democrat platform and decades-long ideology. An evil ideology which demands pro-death (abortion on demand), encourages crime and defending criminals at all costs, creating laws that have and will continue to abolish parental rights, and so many other demonic and tragic attrocities which are practiced and which fills their evil agendas.
America prays that Democrats across the country that are running for ANY political office will be soundly defeated. Life, Common Sense and goodness must prevail. It’s a simple battle of Good vs Evil.
Here we go again. We are not safe under democrat leadership. They say death and more death is okay. Those of religious or moral persuasion are fascist and Nazis. Killing babies and killing people with mental problems is okay. Every American should be outraged as to what Spanberger said. What the school district in Fairfax county did. They decide who lives and who dies. They decide who are criminals and who are victims. And where is the outrage. There should be demonstrations in Fairfax county and elsewhere. The democrats have shown and for the whole world to see their tactics to control the masses. You abort life when we say and we euthanize those we say, is their mantra. They love that DC is a lawless city. They love the killings of those opposing them. Their Soros paid for demonstrators shows that. People demonstrating for crime. Nobody is safe in DC. Not even Schumer if he had no protection from the secret service. We should have known their thinking with the BLM riots in 2020. Nothing to see here they shouted on MSM while the cities were burning down behind them. We are getting to the truth of the democrat party and their leadership. There is a concerted effort to destroy this country and those opposed to preserve her. They are even working on destroying President Trumps plan to celebrate our 250 year of America. Why? Because they don’t live In America they want a different country a communist country. But first they have to get rid of many millions of those that want to keep her as the land of the Brave and home of the Free.
Sears has the courage of her convictions. Spanberger has neither courage nor convictions, nor integrity. The choice should be easy!!
I do not believe that the “government” should have any right to tell women what they can do with their own bodies, so in that narrow window, I suppose I am Pro-Choice (no laws governing male sexual body parts are there?). I read an article this past year in a very conservative newspaper here in Southern Oregon (I know, right?). The article was written by an MD who USED to perform partial birth abortions. That article changed my mind. I am now very much against abortion, especially when used as a birth control method, which is, unfortunately, where we are these days. 600,000 chemical abortions per year, shameful. Over 1 million aborted lives a year, just in the US? I’d like to ask Margaret Sanger if that was her idea when she started Planned Parenthood.
These are Sick people we are dealing with
That woman is pure evil.
spanberger evil; we have enough evil=/
School is a big influencer in students lives, it would be more beneficial to teach about the seriousness and the consequences of activities they are not mature enough to handle , especially the girls who always end up affected more. There is so much positive school could do, instead it messes up kids lives.
The measure is another of claiming the parents have no say, it just another way of controlling!
Evil all over the world. Since when do Schools get involved with students private lives? Teachers today CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH OUR CHILDREN! GET involved with your schools to protect children.
DIMMs are the party of DEATH. Whether by abortion, “assisted” suicide, unchecked crime, promotion of alcohol and drugs, or invasion by foreign criminals, LIFE means NOTHING to DIMMs!
Abortion is sacred to the leftist demon cult. If they succeed in mainstreaming assisted suicide it will be too. If you can get hard core lefties to drop their guard, (vodka helps), you will be shown a hellish moonscape. They hate people, supposedly because of climate change. Dig a bit deeper and you find their utopia; they want to go back to before the industrial era when North America supported only about one million hunter gatherers. They go quiet when asked how to achieve this goal.
The Democrats, Socialist, Marxist, Muslim/Hamas, Communist, etc. are all non-American and enemies to our country and American beliefs!! We need to address all these individuals as they are enemies!!!!
Please everyone pray for Virginia Psalm 140:8-9
My opinion (only) with so many couples that can’t have children it seems like they should be able to talk to the ones wanting an abortion before they go threw with it if it’s not a case of incest or rape and parents should have the right to know if an underage girl is thinking about an abortion in other cases the mother of the child being kxlled has final say it’s between her and God after that
I applaud Governor Younkin and Ms. Sears for going after these “Educators” who knew about this travesty, and kept quiet about it. This should have never happened and Ms. Spanberger is complicit for dodging the issue. Who do the NVA Liberals think they are? God?
It time we get rid of the Democrat party in Virginia. They have done nothing for the middle class people in Va. They only look out for the northern part of Va.
Well we shouldn’t be surprised! Just look at New York, Minneapolis, etc.
We’re headed to the “last days” with the help of radical leftist thinkinking!
ANYONE from AMAC look at the posts?
This article if rife with ‘scammy ads’ for get rich quick… Not part of the discourse regarding the article they are ‘attached’ to.
Let’s see, qualifications to vote democrat: No moral values, no conscience, no respect for human life, no respect for the law, no actual concept of biology, no acknowledgement of a higher authority (our creator). What else am I missing here? The list is just too long! It’s a VERY different world the globalist/Marxist democrats want to create and one that I for one don’t want to be part of.
What would have happened if the girl who had the abortion died? Would that social worker been charged with homicide or some other crime? I doubt it, in this day and age. These people in our school systems are ridiculous. I do believe that public schools should now be abolished. They are nothing but dens for the liberal idiots to groom the children of this country. There are other ways to educate children. I have a child who got her high school diploma from an online school, way before Covid. With the advent of online schools, which in some cases are free, a child can get as good an education, probably better now, as in a brick and mortar school. Public schools have become nothing but a way to fleece the American people of their tax dollars, while taking away their parental rights.
I’m the child that my natural father wanted aborted but thank God my natural mother decided to give birth to me and put me up for adoption! So many couples want to adopt ,give them the chance!
Virginia, make sure all votes are accurately counted and accounted for.
The Michigan constitutional amendment, Prop 3, was passed by a vote of about 55% to 45%, just like Prop 1 and Prop 2.That vote count is statistically highly improbable. And passage of each proposal was the desire of the left wing nut jobs running Michigan.
The Michigan Secretary of State, a democrat, is as crooked as the day is long. She is the one who certified all of the vote counts. Including the more than 12000 votes cast by dead people in the 2020 presidential election. She has had multiple court judgements against her and ignored every one of them.
So, Virginia be on your guard against vote fraud. It is real and the democrats will do everything they can get away with to make it happen.
The battle is Spiritual and for the minds of those who “cannot see or hear the Truth”.
Sue these b etches. When sentenced, slip up the paperwork and identify each as a trans male. Put them in cells with the biggest meanest ra pests they have. Then turn off the lights and notify rheir parents they may need a bore shuns.
That is American justice with this crime
SO Declares the whacked out weekend turd throwing leftist troll:
freedom to leftists always comes down as a “right” to eliminate those who they hate.
what at perverse bunch of demons are the radical democrats like the AMAC weekend troll
Virginia; Ezekiel 22:6
This entity sounds very much like the”wicked witch of the east”,but more than likely an average democ rat.The parents should have had a say in those abortions and the people that promoted them should have a fair trial and then imprisoned.
No wonder Democrats like wars so much. They are all natural born killers!
Maybe the schools should be teaching these kids to keep their damn clothes on, or at the very least, birth control. But Why? Just get an abortion you don’t have to pay for, and your parents will never know. So what’s this issue?
Thanks Sarah Katherine Sisk for an extremely well-written article. I would be proud if my grandson, who graduated with a communications degree had written it.
It’s not “anti-life,” it’s pro-choice. It’s pro-freedom. A fetus isn’t a real human until self-awareness and cognition kick in.
BTW, I despise the Democrat Party.
Oh my god this article, it’s writer, and the site as a whole is full of lies. Just straight up no facts, fearmongering BS. I hope you enjoy losing just an unbelievable amount of elections over the next few years.
Let’s kill all of the babies keep it secret!
Well if that amendment would come to a vote it needs to the following Amendment to it. If the Male sperm donor wishes to have nothing to do with the child. He can forfeit that right and have his name removed from the birth certificate and NOT be liable for any child support. If the woman has the right to terminate a child relationship by murder, then the father should have a right to terminate a relationship and pay no child support by means of a paper document. What is good for the Goose is good for the Gander.