These regulations make it harder for women and couples to access critical reproductive health care services, including life-saving cancer screenings, family planning, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and continued safe, legal abortion care. If this policy becomes permanent, it will likely make it much more difficult for women in Virginia to access abortion care. Low-income women and rural women in particular will have even less access to safe abortion care and family-planning services. Extensive, burdensome requirements for clinic buildings that are unrelated to the services health centers provide and have no proven medical benefit will reduce or eliminate patient access to health care.  If regulations placed on women's health centers are based upon evidence-based medical practices that advance the public health, then women in the Commonwealth will be able to maintain access to vital health care from trusted medical providers.  Medically inappropriate and unnecessarily burdensome regulations would restrict access to essential health care services for the women of Virginia and further marginalize young, low-income, uninsured and minority women by decreasing their health care options.  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.  It is my hope that the regulations will be amended to be based purely on medicine and science and should not impede women's access to essential health care.