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 Amend the Regulation after Assessment and Receipt of Public Comment
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 7/10/2019
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7/9/19  9:41 pm
Commenter: CER, MSW

21st century women deserve medical care based on good science, best practice
 

The push for more clinic regs to increase women's safety is laudable at first glance.

However, net effect of mandating medically unnecessary operating guidelines, waiting periods, unreasonable timetables, gratuitously non-scientific "peer counseling," and spurious extra procedures is increased risk to women's physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing -- not a decrease.  Bodily autonomy is a basic human right, as is healthcare based in science and not public opinion, or unfounded anecdotes, or politicians practicing medicine without a license. 

To increase women's safety in medical offices, ensure women's healthcare is always a matter for individual women, their medically-trained and licensed providers, and their own -- no one else's -- relationship with God, spirituality and/or family connections.

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