VIRGINIA: Spanberger's Abortion Agenda is Dangerous for Women and Babies

Abigail Spanberger claims to care about women's rights, but her policies would be dangerous—and potentially deadly—for both women and babies if voters elect her governor of Virginia this November.

As a card-carrying Democrat, the former congresswoman has been loud and proud about her support for "reproductive freedom." But to decipher what exactly she means by that, one must dig deeper.

So let's dig.

For starters, Spanberger does not believe babies born after failed abortions deserve the same life-sustaining care that any other premature infant would receive. She proved this in 2023, when she voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

To be clear, these are babies who have already been born and are no longer attached to their mothers. There is no legal justification for denying them all the same rights that every other U.S. citizen enjoys.

Spanberger, however, apparently disagrees. It seems she would rather allow these living, breathing, human babies to die on a cold, hard table than guarantee them access to lifesaving care.

In other words, she supports infanticide.

VA gov on abortion this morning:

“If a mother is in labor...the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians & mother" pic.twitter.com/cc15pVLjIQ

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 30, 2019

Her cold indifference recalls another Virginia Democrat in the governor's mansion who thought babies born after failed abortions should be "kept comfortable" as their mothers decide if they should live or die.

What was his name, again… Ralph Abortham?

(READ MORE: Big Abortion Brought in $4.3 Billion in 2023 Alone)

Endangering Women

Spanberger is also a proponent of allowing unfettered access to the abortion drug mifepristone, echoing the abortion lobby's claim that it is "safe."New research shows it is anything but.

Insurance claims data obtained by the Foundation for the Restoration of America show that more than one-in-ten women (10.9 percent) who have a chemical abortion will experience a serious adverse health event. Those side effects may include life-threatening conditions like sepsis, hemorrhage, uterine rupture, ruptured ectopic pregnancy, or even death.

https://x.com/_FFROA/status/1918368696122167740

That's one risky game of Reproductive Roulette—especially in Virginia. The Old Dominion State saw the largest increase in abortions of any state in 2024, spiking 16 percent year-over-year, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

The pro-abortion organization reports that some 38,920 abortions took place in Virginia last year. If 66 percent of those terminations were drug-induced—as was the case in 2023—then roughly 2,800 women likely experienced serious complications from abortion pills in Virginia in 2024.

Does Spanberger care?

She didn't respond to Restoration News' request for comment, so take from that what you will.

In 2023, however, she joined a "friend of the court" (amicus) brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to lift restrictions on mifepristone that a lower court put in place amid growing concerns over the drug's safety.

Those restrictions included the Food and Drug Administration's previous in-person dispensation requirement for mifepristone. The agency lifted that regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic and made the change permanent in 2023, allowing patients to obtain the drug without ever setting foot inside a doctor's office.

How many women have ended up in the emergency room because they skipped that vital doctor's visit to rule out an ectopic pregnancy?

Thanks to the lack of adequate abortion reporting in this country, we'll likely never know.

That's Spanberger's "reproductive freedom" for you.

(READ MORE: Correcting the Record: Retired OB-GYN Says Abortion Is Never Medically Necessary)