Repeal TRAP laws/regulations to REALY protect women's health.

The current law(s) are unnecessary, burdensome, and will keep Virginia women from accessing health care that they need.  It is barbaric and shameful. 

The health department should never allow a political or religious agenda to over-ride accurate and factual scientific data on health needs

Doctors, health care professionals, and a majority of Virginians oppose these regulations.

·       A 2013 statewide survey showed a majority of Virginians (58%) oppose the medically unnecessary and burdensome regulations of women's health care centers that provide critical and comprehensive health care, including abortion.

·       In September 2012, a diverse group of 177 doctors and medical experts from across the state organized and independently funded a public letter and Richmond Times-Dispatch advertisement, writing that "We must not travel down a dangerous slippery slope where we allow political forces to dictate medical care."

If the regulations are not repealed and rewritten, tens of thousands of Virginia women and families will lose access to critical medical care.

If the regulations are not repealed and rewritten, tens of thousands of Virginia women and families will lose access to critical medical care.

·       Five women's health centers in Virginia have already been forced to close due to these burdensome and medically-unnecessary regulations.  If the regulations remain unchanged additional health centers will close, cutting off women's access to preventative and critical health care – cancer screenings, GYN and general medical exams – particularly women in low-income areas, who rely heavily on these services and facilities for their health care.

         If the VA legislature truly cares about families – it will repeal this burdensome and actually quite evil law.  Change the message the legislature has sent to the women of Virginia – which is we want to control and limit your health care based on our personal biases and opinions.  Through TARP, Virginia has set up its own form of a death panel.