The Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system is looking into accusations that a staff member at Centreville High School arranged abortions for students.
Parents were not notified.
According to local news outlet WJLA, this occurred in 2021. At least one of the two students was 17-years-old.
"We are launching an immediate and comprehensive investigation as we take all concerns of student wellbeing very seriously," said FCPS in a statement shared by Fox News and The New York Post.
Olivia Gans Turner of Virginia Society for Human Life told AFN this is a very alarming story, adding there are at least two cases.
"There appears to have been the possibility of inappropriate activity on the part of some Fairfax County High School staff who may have urged minor girls to get abortions without informing their parents," Turner told AFN. "Virginia law does currently require parental consent unless the teenager is in an abusive or dangerous situation (where) she then can appeal for a judicial bypass."
Details are unclear at this time.
"So, there are some question marks connected to the story," Turner told AFN. "However what is alarming regardless of what all the factors may be in these stories is that it appears again in Fairfax County as some other counties in Northern Virginia there seems to be an attitude from the school board and the school system that parents don't have appropriate or necessary roles to play in these important decisions. If any of this turns out to true, it is very troubling and parents of whatever persuasion, whether they are pro-life or not, should be deeply deeply concerned that this may or may not have been happening in any of our schools in Virginia."
Turner went on to say that "an even greater threat to the right of parents to provide appropriate assistance and protection and care to their minor-aged daughters" is that within the next couple of months, Virginia could see a constitutional amendment voted on in the House of Delegates and state Senate that would remove potentially the ability of any parent anywhere in the Commonwealth to protect their daughters amongst abortionists.
"That constitutional amendment has already been voted on once, it has to be voted on again in the next session, and then it goes to the public ballot," Turner told AFN. "Those three steps do not bode well in the current climate for the rights of parents to provide much needed supervision and support to their daughters, so we do all have to look at this story and everyone needs to be paying attention to what's coming out of Fairfax County."
