Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities [12 VAC 5 ‑ 412]
Action Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities
Stage Emergency/NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 2/15/2012
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1/24/12  9:55 am
Commenter: Amy Huntington

Virginian Women Deserve Better
 

Regarding permanent regulations on women's health- 

 

The big issues of the day really concern job creation with a focus on fiscal responsibility.  Instead, Virginia legislators have hijacked the legislative process with a series of socially conservative issues, as a republican majority has been gained.  I find this dispicable and backwards-looking.  Please see these regulations for what they are- conservative agenda that has the cumulative effect of slowing down access to health care for under-represented women in the state.  Its heart breaking that the state feels it has the right to impose these new regulations without consulting the women who advocate for or access these services.  Personally, as a woman with a graduate degree working in the private sector, I cannot wait to move out of the state of Virginia so my tax dollars go to representatives who work for the people, not to a party whose ideals are straight out of the 1950s.  

The regulations threaten the continued availability of safe, legal first-trimester abortion and preventive reproductive health care in multiple locations throughout the state. 

Extensive, burdensome requirements for clinic buildings that are unrelated to the services health centers provide and have no proven medical benefit will reduce or eliminate patient access to health care.

Please consider these points while talking over your decision.

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