Groups sue to block vote on reproductive rights amendment

New court challenge targets Virginia abortion amendment ballot language

Family Foundation president Victoria Cobb speaks alongside lawyers and plaintiffs in a case challenging Virginia's pending ballot referendum to enshrine reproductive rights into the state's constitution on April 30, 2026. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)Tazewell County makes news once again — this time over a second lawsuit challenging a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine reproductive rights in Virginia.  Filed…

Virginia Pro-Life Group Files Suit to Stop Abortions Up to Birth Amendment

A Virginia pro-life legal organization filed suit today in Tazewell County Circuit Court to block a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortions up to birth. The lawsuit is arguing that the ballot language is materially misleading and hides sweeping changes to state law. The Founding Freedoms Law Center, the legal arm of The Family Foundation of Virginia, filed the challenge on behalf of the Association of American Physicians…

Groups sue to block vote on reproductive rights amendment

RICHMOND — The Family Foundation and two medical groups opposed to abortion are suing to keep Virginians from voting on the proposed reproductive freedom amendment to the state constitution.