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.
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