Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Virginia Department of Health
 
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State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities [12 VAC 5 ‑ 412]
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7/31/14  2:42 pm
Commenter: Michelle Woods, Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington Action Fund

I ask the board to review the TRAP laws
 

Virginia needs to be a state where young professionals and young families want to settle and bring their ideas and entrepreneur spirit to. I am a social 27 year old woman who relates to people from both spectrums of the political aisle and I know that if Virginia kept the TRAP laws in place, it would continue to scare off people from settling in Virginia from all different political ideologies, as well as all different ethnic and geographic backgrounds. My generation, which is the generation that will build the infrastructure for the next generation within the Commonwealth, is not okay settling and contributing to a state that is politically backwards in terms of its access to health care services. Millennials who would never opt to get an abortion due to their own personal ideologies are still uncomfortable coming to a place with such outdated restrictions, comparable to states like Mississippi and Texas,  that unfortunately suffer from being ranked states with the lowest performing health system performance. Virginia needs to be a place where our high quality education services match our high quality access to health care services. 

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