I support the Board of Health’s decision to amend the medically-unnecessary restrictions designed to close safe, trusted women’s health care centers in Virginia. As a person who is deeply committed to ensuring that all Virginia women have affordable access to safe, legal reproductive health care, I applaud the Board of Health’s decision to stop letting politics drive decisions that affect women’s health. 

I strongly believe it is a slippery slope for our country to make public policy based on religious beliefs. Denying women reproductive health care based on religion is not far removed from requiring women to cover themselves in public or forbidding them to work outside the home. Please respect the rights of all Virginians to make their own health care decisions - and honor our forefathers commitment to the separation of church and state.

Thank you..