# Fairfax County, Va public schools being investigated about staff taking girls to get abortions without parental consent
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013 "2025-08-13T19:31:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/1 "2025-08-13T19:31:33Z")
Folks, yes, I know, there’s been a long-running urban legend that public schools (always public schools, folks; private schools would NEVER do this, oh no) take girls to get abortions during the school day without the parents’ knowledge or consent. The Fairfax County, VA school system is being investigated because of reports that this exact thing happened, and likely more than once.
If it’s true, here’s what probably happened: The student was pregnant by a teacher or other staff member, and they did this to try and cover it up.
And what actually kicked off the investigation is that the school district may have paid for them! I’m surprised this isn’t a bigger story.
> **[Youngkin orders investigation into allegations of school-funded abortions in...](https://www.fox5dc.com/news/gov-youngkin-orders-investigation-allegations-school-funded-abortions-fairfax-county)**
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> Governor Glenn Youngkin has directed the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation to launch a full criminal probe into allegations that Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) staff arranged for minors to receive abortions without parental...
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/2 "2025-08-13T19:40:51Z")
The accusations will be shouted, and evidence contrary to those accusations will be whispered and/or ignored.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/3 "2025-08-13T19:44:45Z")
I certainly hope the story isn’t true, but if it is, it’s a grotesque violation of personal and professional boundaries.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/4 "2025-08-13T19:49:13Z")
So the link doesn’t specify who is making the claim, just that it was “a published report”.
Let’s go journalism!
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/5 "2025-08-13T19:52:03Z")
Currently, there seem to be only vague allegations: the story in the OP doesn’t even provide information about the “published report” that supposedly sparked the investigation (kind of ninja’d by **bobot**!). I don’t think this is news-worthy at all as it currently stands.
When the report’s source is named (assuming it’s credible/nonpartisan) and/or the investigation uncovers evidence of wrongdoing, _then_ it’s a news story. Right now it’s effectively just a rumor.
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/6 "2025-08-13T19:53:17Z")
“Allegations suggest”
”May have been”
”Potentially used public funds”.
Published where??
Consider the source: Fox 5, and Youngkin.
”May have” is a shortcut for “I want to plant the idea in your head, even though I have no evidence”.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/7 "2025-08-13T19:55:15Z")
The fact that it’s referred to as a “published report” without saying where it’s published or linking to it says to me that this isn’t just a rumor; it’s an outright lie.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/8 "2025-08-13T19:55:52Z")
Which person involved was trans?
'Cause you know that has to be it there too!
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### Author:  [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/9 "2025-08-13T20:03:24Z")
There is much more detail here and elsewhere on this substack: [Bolted Doors and Broken Laws - by Walter Curt](https://www.wcdispatch.com/p/bolted-doors-and-broken-laws), this is the original source of the story.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/10 "2025-08-13T20:52:09Z")
The mention of “Patrotic tax payers” tells me all I need to know.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/11 "2025-08-13T20:52:44Z")
It was published in his own extremely conservative rag, the _W.C. Dispatch._
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### Author:  [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/12 "2025-08-13T20:54:31Z")
Yes, it’s an extremely conservative, mostly opinion substack. However, it is the original source for the story, and for the moment is the root source of details any other news site will have.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/13 "2025-08-13T20:56:45Z")
It’s not a root source for anything. The girls making the allegations, if they exist, are the root sources. Why haven’t either of them contacted any legitimate news outlets? Without that, nobody has any root source.
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### Author:  [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/14 "2025-08-13T20:59:50Z")
> [@Arjuna34](#):
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> There is much more detail here and elsewhere on this substack: [Bolted Doors and Broken Laws - by Walter Curt](https://www.wcdispatch.com/p/bolted-doors-and-broken-laws), this is the original source of the story.
The handwritten letter seems a bit strange. The translation is accurate, but the original raises some red flags for me. Take the last paragraph, where her age as well as the month and year of the alleged abortion are underlined. Those don’t seem like the sorts of things one would underline in that type of letter. IMHO that conveys the impression of a “fill in the blank” form. There’s two different styles of capital Es. There’s random capital Fs in some places where a lower case F would be correct. Then what is presumably her signature and some other information at the bottom are also underlined. That all seems really strange. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if someone at the very least coached her to write this, or even that it was partially written by someone else.
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### Author:  [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/15 "2025-08-13T20:59:55Z")
Well let me rephrase that. It’s the root source of what’s publicly available in mainstream news at this instant, not a root source of the actual truth. Feel free to ignore it.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/16 "2025-08-13T21:03:32Z")
I have a **[root source](https://youtu.be/9qg5LBp9BHs)** of my own, exposing a conspiracy by illegal aliens to take over the world.
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### Author:  [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/17 "2025-08-13T21:06:05Z")
_Shrug_, I thought it would be helpful for those interested to see where this was coming from and see the details and root of what Fox, et. al. are summarizing from in their stories. Guess not.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/18 "2025-08-13T21:07:19Z")
Was it McMartin High School?
80’s reference
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### Author:  [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/19 "2025-08-13T21:09:27Z")
It is useful. It seems there is a (former?) staff member that has been making accusations about the social worker since May 2022. She has some audio recordings of conversations with administration in which she makes the accusations. At least the very first one seems to be in response to her potentially giving a pregnancy test to a student (which she denied doing).
It smells like a vendetta against the social worker or an attention-seeking play (hence going to the news rather than up the chain in the school district).
But we know basically nothing at this point, other than what Ms Perez has claimed and the districts “we’re investigating” responses. Oh, and the governor piling in for the political cred.
ETA: Or, perhaps, a student who had an abortion, perhaps even after counseling about her options from the school counselor, and then had regrets and told her friends/family/teacher that it was all the counselor’s idea.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairfax-county-va-public-schools-being-investigated-about-staff-taking-girls-to-get-abortions-without-parental-consent/1022013/20 "2025-08-13T21:12:06Z")
I don’t know the blogger, but I _do_ know that there is no journalistic reason behind Fox 5 mentioning _only_ that it was a published report.
That’s all kinds of fucked up sneaky and misleading. I wonder how many people spread this around on social media like our OP has here.
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