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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2/15/12  8:32 am
Commenter: Charlyn Harrison

TRAP regulations Please stop this maddness
 

Let's not revert back to the dark ages.

 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.
*  The regulations will increase the financial hurdles to health
care for patients, with no proven medical benefit to patients.
Women need more access to affordable, high quality health care,
not less.
*  If regulations placed on women's health centers are based upon
evidence-based medical practices that advance the public health,
then women in the Commonwealth will be able to maintain access
to vital health care from trusted medical providers.
*  Medically inappropriate and unnecessarily burdensome regulations
would restrict access to essential health care services for the
women of Virginia and further marginalize young, low-income,
uninsured and minority women by decreasing their health care
options.
*  The high standard of care provided by women's health centers is
proven by their impressive safety record. Abortion is one of the
safest medical procedures. Over-regulation 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.
*  It is my hope that the regulations will be amended to be based
purely on medicine and science and should not impede women's
access to essential health care.

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