By: Mary Marslender

Virginia voters have many reasons to oppose Amendment 1, the proposed constitutional amendment regarding “reproductive freedom.”

As a former member of the National Council on Disability and the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities and the mother of a child with special needs, I worry most about how, if adopted, the amendment would allow expectant parents to terminate their unborn children’s lives because of a fetal anomaly or disability.

The Commonwealth’s official explanation of Amendment 1 fails to acknowledge this, but Virginia already has a permissive law regarding access to abortion.

[[…Read more at: The Washington Times…]]