We live in a time when access to low cost health care is critical.  Therefore, we should not be limiting that access.

That, however, is what the proposed permanent regulations on abortion facilites would do.  I therefore strongly encourage you to amend them for the following reasons:

+ They are overly budensome and unnecessary--if they were in fact necessary, why are they not applied to all outpatient facilities for all procedures?

+ They are potentially discriminatory as they apply only to facilites that serve women.

+ They add costs to a specific medical treatment--we do not need costs added to any medical treatment unless they are absolutely necessary.  These regulations are not necessary.

+ I am old enough to remember what happened when women did not have access to safe, legal abortions.  They happened anyway--but in unsafe, illegal ways.  Ways that killed/maimed women. 

+ So--these regualations would add unneeded costs to medical treatments, would reduce access to safe, legal abortions--thus encouraging unsafe, illegal abortions, and would thereby have the state interferring with a woman's right to manage her own body.  They are unnecessary and unwanted.