Are we really going to move VA backwards?  Do we want our young women to resort to unsafe procedures because facilities aren't available?  Please quit listening to our governor and attorney general who so clearly have their own agenda and listen to the people who it will actually effect--the women of VA.  These are my concerns:

• The proposed regulations are overly burdensome and unnecessary.  They have no proven medical benefit and will only serve to reduce or eliminate patient access to health care.
• Women in Virginia need more access to affordable, high quality health care, not less.  The regulations will increase the financial burden on patients and decrease patients' health care options thereby marginalizing young, low-income, and uninsured women.
• Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures. Instead of improving safety, these regulations will limit access to a wide range of preventive reproductive health care services provided by women's health clinics, including life-saving cancer screenings, family planning, and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment.
• The regulations should be based solely on medicine and science and should not impede women's access to essential health care.

Thank you for doing the right and logical  thing, not what the right-wing fanatics want by imposing their views and beliefs on the rest of us.