Virginia’s capital city this week voted to give Planned Parenthood a $1.2 million property for use as an abortion clinic. Critics say the city’s gift of the property—which is situated just steps away from a middle school—could violate its own rules.
The Richmond City Council on Monday agreed to sell the acre of land, which holds an abandoned public school building, to the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood for just $10.
But as the Founding Freedoms Law Center’s Josh Hetzler observed in a July 19 letter to Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney (D.), the city council did not follow the process for land sales outlined in Richmond City Code Section 8-58. That section states that the council must first vote to declare the property in question “surplus,” and then entertain competing bids. As the council did neither of those things, the Planned Parenthood deal was “unlawful,”…
