As a social worker who specializes in crisis pregnancies, I have seen the damage done to women who go to substandard abortion facilities that are operated like assembly lines to take money and move women in and out.  If women's health is truly our concern, these facillities should have the highest standards for operation.  Arguments against high standards are political and concerned only with protecting the right to abortion, not the rights and needs of women.  Who wouldn't want their wife, girlfriend, daughter, niece, etc. not to get the highest quality of care?  Complaints that clean, ethical, competent facilities are too costly is not acceptable.  The abortion industry is making a killing on this women and even if they weren't, is the state of Virginia going to put a cost on women's lives?

Mary Beth Style, M.S.W.