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Time for some light

Family/Pro-life A botched abortion in Fairfax illustrates why the Board of Health should make permanent new rules regulating abortion facilities

Dick Retta outside the DC Planned Parenthood clinic, with "escorts" (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Political cases

Family/Pro-life The Justice Department under Obama is going after abortion facility sidewalk counselors

Growing

Family/Pro-life State Health Commissioner Remley approves Planned Parenthood's application for a new Virginia Beach operating room even though her department ruled last year it wasn't needed

Statue of Wilberforce outside Wilberforce House in Hull, UK (Oliver Brown)

The Wilberforce model

Family/Pro-life The pro-life bills working through Virginia's General Assembly are part of a larger national strategy of incrementalism

Del. Bob Marshall (photo credit: delegatebob.com)

Waiting for "personhood"

Family/Pro-life A half-dozen senators, hold-overs from the Virginia GOP's moderate era, put Del. Bob Marshall's pro-life "personhood" bill on hold

Recent Articles

Update: Almost nailed down

Update: Almost nailed down

Family/Pro-life A "conscience clause" bill protecting faith-based adoption agencies from being forced to place children against their beliefs passed the Senate today and now heads to the Governor's desk

Progress

Progress

Family/Pro-life Senate Education and Health Committee passes House bill to ban most state funding for abortions

Nailing it down

Nailing it down

Family/Pro-life Faith-based adoption agencies have helped cut Virginia's foster care caseload by a third since 2007; the full Senate will soon vote on a bill to help the agencies' keep that work going by protecting their religious liberty

The beginning of life

The beginning of life

Family/Pro-life The House votes tomorrow on Del. Bob Marshall's "personhood" bill

Cutting through the pink fog

Cutting through the pink fog

Family/Pro-life Pro-lifers have been complaining for years about Komen's connection to Planned Parenthood--now everybody knows that Komen used to support the abortion giant and plans to continue

Two steps forward . . .

Two steps forward . . .

Family/Pro-life And one step back for a handful of pro-life bills currently in the General Assembly