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 Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 3/29/2013
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1/30/13  5:30 pm
Commenter: Suzanne Curran

Women deserve safe Health Care. The abortion industry has proven there is a
 

Women deserve safe Health Care. The abortion industry has proven there is a
> need for oversight and regulation based upon recent findings. Abortions are
> surgery. All the blood that is being found during inspections proves this
> is a very invasive procedure. If this weren't a politicized issue, abortion
> clinics would have already been brought up to the standards of any surgical
> site. Where else would you find people fighting to have less safe
> environments for surgery ? Do people really go looking for the least safe
> environment to have surgery in order to save money and feel that it's ok to
> get infections from unsafe procedures ? Do people really want to impede a
> rescue unit from getting a gurney quickly to a woman in crisis where
> minutes may mean life or death ? Unfortunately, the demographics of the
> average woman to seek an abortion is a young woman in her twenties or so
> and too uninformed,not wise enough and feeling a sense of urgency in her
> crisis to do proper analysis of a doctor and his facility to truly
> understand her risk. We need to protect her from herself.


 

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