I understand that a federal judge has reimposed the TRAP regulations the Board of Health abolished in 2016, and obliged you to start the process of considering those rules all over again. As I'm sure you know, in 2016 the Supreme Court ruled similar regulations in Texas unconstitutional. Nor are the regulations you're considering necessary to protect patients' health; a 2018 study of 50,000 such procedures showed equally low complication rates in clinic or hospital settings (https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/safety_of_abortion_in_ascs_fact_sheet.pdf). These rules exist for purely political purposes, to impose the religious beliefs of a relative minority on the majority. While I sympathize with abortion opponents, and do not doubt that the majority of them are sincere in their efforts to preserve life as they see it, I think the unintended consequences of forcing everyone to follow their personal beliefs are too great to support. Please abolish these rules once again, keep clinics open, and preserve Virginians' control over their own bodies and health, and their access to safe medical care.