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| |name = Virginia Society for Human Life | |||
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| |formation = 1967 | |||
| |leader_title = President | |||
| |leader_name= Olivia Gans | |||
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| The '''Virginia Society for Human Life''' ('''VSHL''') is a non-profit organization advocating an end to abortion in ]. VSHL is the Virginia affiliate of the ]. It was founded in 1967 and is the oldest ] organization in the country.<ref name="WORLD"></ref><ref></ref> The group has a ], VSHL PAC, to support pro-life candidates for Virginia public office. Its current president is Olivia Gans. | |||
| ==Activities== | |||
| VSHL works through political and social channels against ], ], ], and other "life issues" in Virginia with the ultimate goal of ending those practices in the state and nationwide. It lobbies in the ] for laws such as strict regulations on ]s and bans on abortion after a point at which it says a fetus can feel pain. VSHL president Olivia Gans says that during a General Assembly session, VSHL has "a team of 2-3 individuals who are almost daily down at the General Assembly communicating, lobbying, giving our pro-life members information, reaching out to members who might be on the fence and monitoring bills...We may or may not support every pro-life bill that is put forward because we look at what kind of effort has the greatest chance of success in this session."<ref name="WORLD"/> | |||
| In 2011, VSHL was involved in the passage of a bill to ].<ref name="WORLD"/> The bill, which passed the House by an large margin and passed the Senate after a tiebreaker vote from ] ], may force a number of abortion clinics in the state to close.<ref></ref> | |||
| ===VSHL PAC=== | |||
| VSHL PAC provides support to pro-life candidates for public office, especially for ], the ], and statewide offices. They endorsed Gov. ], Lt. Gov. ], and Attorney General ] in the ], as well as 61 candidates for the ].<ref></ref> VSHL PAC started in 1990 and has spent about $100,000 on federal elections since then.<ref></ref> In the ], 11 of VSHL's endorsed ] candidates and 21 endorsed ] candidates were elected.<ref></ref> | |||
| ==VSHL v. FEC== | |||
| VSHL was involved in a federal court case against the ] that was decided in 2001. VSHL planned to distribute voter guides for the ] that would detail VSHL's views on life issues and would show various candidates' positions on these issues. VSHL submitted a petition to the FEC asking it to repeal a subsection of election regulations that would declare these activities corporate expenditures, illegal for a ] non-profit. VSHL said the law was too broad. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, agreed, and issued an injunction against the FEC prohibiting them from enforcing the law in question. However, the ] overturned the lower court's nationwide injunction and amended the injunction to apply only to VSHL.<ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
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