A courageous teacher at Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is now facing a campaign of intimidation after she came forward with allegations that a high‐school social worker arranged and even paid for abortions of minor students without parental knowledge. The teacher revealed that a 17-year-old girl at Centreville High School said a social worker scheduled her abortion in late 2021 and kept her family in the dark.
Instead of addressing the concerns, FCPS leadership issued a public letter disparaging the teacher’s credibility and tying the investigation to the involvement of a prominent pro-life law firm supporting her case. The district has brought in a high-priced Washington law firm and appears to be framing the teacher’s allegations as retaliatory and unsubstantiated, even though the matter involves potential risk to the unborn, and a major failure of transparency with parents.
Parents and pro-life advocates are deeply alarmed by the possibility that vulnerable pregnant students might be steered toward terminating a life without their parents’ knowledge. The case raises fundamental questions about the rights of parents to be informed, the responsibility of schools to safeguard children, and the protection of unborn lives when school-based staff intervene in such deeply sensitive matters.
As investigations continue—including from the Virginia State Police and the U.S. Department of Education—this story is becoming a flashpoint for the broader discussion: will our educational institutions honor parental involvement and the dignity of unborn children, or will they facilitate secrecy under the guise of “support”? The teacher and her attorneys have stated that they intend to press forward until the full truth is exposed and accountability is achieved.
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