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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1/26/12  12:39 pm
Commenter: Fredrika M Witt

Let's not be unrealistic
 

The most destructive force on this planet is a human. 2/3 of all births are unintentional. Therefore, to not burden our planet's resources, we need to limit the number of UNINTENTIONAL births.

A pregnancy at the wrong time of a woman's life can derail the rest of her life.

We need to educate our minors about sex instead of making it taboo and only preaching abstianance which is not a legitimate means to avoid pregnancy for many teens. Teenage girls need to be equipped with the knowledge, power, and means to make the right decisions about sex, which should include every possible means to avoiding getting pregnant, i.e. birth control and condoms.

  • The proposed regulations are overly burdensome and unnecessary.  They have no proven medical benefit and will only serve to reduce or eliminate patient access to health care.
  • Women in Virginia need more access to affordable, high quality health care, not less.  The regulations will increase the financial burden on patients and decrease patients' health care options thereby marginalizing young, low-income, and uninsured women.
  • Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures. Instead of improving safety, these regulations will limit access to a wide range of preventive reproductive health care services provided by women's health clinics, including life-saving cancer screenings, family planning, and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment.
  • The regulations should be based solely on medicine and science and should not impede women's access to essential health care.

 

 

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