Please see the press release issued by VSHL after this awful ruling by a Federal Court eliminating laws limiting who can perform abortions.  Pro-abortion radicals don't care about women any more than they care about babies.  They will do anything to increase the number of abortions. 

Virginia Society for Human Life

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Tel: 804.560.8745 ** www.vshl.org ** vshl@verizon.net

For immediate release May 6, 2019

STATEMENT OF OLIVIA GANS TURNER, PRESIDENT OF THE VIRGINIA SOCIETY FOR HUMAN LIFE, ON THE DECISION IN Falls Church Health Care Center v. Oliver

Today in a shocking decision, a Federal District Court has struck down a law prohibiting advanced practice clinicians, including nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants from performing abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy.

In his decision, Judge Henry E. Hudson, showing complete disregard for the safety of women having an abortion, claimed that abortion facilities “do not require the onsite presence of a licensed physician.”

Laws requiring that “physicians only” perform abortions exist in 40 states.The court decision today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is directly contrary to controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Referring to “our repeated statements . . . that the performance of abortions may be restricted to physicians,” the Supreme Court in Mazurek v. Armstrong noted that Roe v. Wade itself said the “State may determine the term ‘physician’ to mean only a physician currently licensed by the State, and may proscribe any abortion by a person who is not a physician as so defined.’”  In their unceasing quest to promote no-limits destruction of unborn children regardless of stage of development or ability to feel pain, abortion advocates are more extreme even than the Roe v. Wade decision they claim to defend.

Despite—or perhaps because of-- the near-certainty that the Supreme Court would overturn this unprincipled holding, we have strong reason to fear that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring will shirk his constitutional duty to appeal it, prioritizing his personal advocacy of abortion on demand.