Women should have convenient access to an abortion, since it is a legal medical procedure. Requiring admitting privileges and operating room facilities in abortion facilities places arduous restrictions on these clinics beyond outpatient clinics providing similar surgical services (vascectomies, minor plastic surgery, etc). The reasons for these restrictions is not to protect women, because these restrictions do not have a proven medical benefit. It is simply to exhaust the effort and finances of abortion providers so they give up. This leaves large sections of the state of Virginia without legal clinics, and is disciminatory towards poor and rural women.

Please repeal TARP, and please stop using women's bodies to score political points. Stop trying to shame and guilt women into making different choices with mandatory counseling and ultrasounds too. In most other areas, conservatives support the right of citizens to make their own informed private decisions. Since you do not attempt to guilt and pressure cancer patients or any other group of patients, stop doing it with women who seek abortions.

If you really want to make sure women are safe and are making sound medical decisions, please crack down on crisis pregnancy centers who LIE to women (http://www.naralva.org/what-is-choice/cpc/common-lies.shtml) about fertility, cancer, and PTSD risks after an abortion. For the vast majority of women, access and choice to make their  own decisions is what determines a woman's trajectory after an unwanted pregnancy.