The regulations placed on these women’s health centers threaten the continued availability of safe, legal first-trimester abortion and preventive reproductive health care in multiple locations throughout the Commonwealth, further marginalizing young, low-income, uninsured, and minority women by decreasing their health care options. The regulations impose unnecessary, burdensome building requirements that are unrelated to the services health centers provide and have no proven medical benefit. These building requirements will reduce or eliminate patient access to health care and are designed to force women’s health centers to close. 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. 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. Hundreds of medical professionals throughout the state have spoken against unnecessary, burdensome building requirements, calling on the Board of Health to rely on evidence-based medicine, not politics.  The evidence shows that Virginia’s women’s health care centers are safe, trusted providers. With this law, women’s health centers will not be able to continue to be so. Please remove these restrictions, and take women’s bodies and healthcare OUT OF POLITICS. Stop messing with women’s lives in ways you have no right to!