Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities [12 VAC 5 ‑ 412]
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7/31/14  1:48 pm
Commenter: R Gilbert

A small business supports retaining the regulations in current form
 

As a small Virginia business, I am subject to NUMEROUS state & federal reguations. An entire wall is required for all the notices. I understand why Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics would like to operate with virtually NO regulations, (wouldn't we all!!) as they did until the current regs were implimented. It gives them much greater income. (They are very profitable "non profits".)

The "elephant in the room" is that the current regulations reduce abortion clinic's income (although income still appears quite robust from looking at Planned Parenthood reports.) The fact that abortion clinics would put profits above women's health is abhorent, and their calous disreguard for women's health should be exposed.

It was unfair to allow abortion providers to be the ONLY business in Virginia to operate virtually unregulated, as was the case. The current regulations level the playing field. Before the regulations, vet clinics were more regulated than abortion clinics. That defies logic & common sense.

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