Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities [12 VAC 5 ‑ 412]
Action Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities
Stage Emergency/NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 2/15/2012
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1/28/12  1:52 pm
Commenter: Linda M. Clague

Abortion regulation
 

Recent legislation and proposed regulations of clinics that serve women's health needs are thinly veiled attacks on women's access to safe and necessary healthcare.  Most people who use health clinics go for general healthcare and medicines related to women's GYN issues because they can't afford care anywhere else.  I have friends who work 2-3 part-time jobs because they can't get full time work with benefits.  These women are part of  the working un-insured population that obtain pap-smears, physicals, birth-control meds at a reasonable cost because vasectomies for their husbands require a large chunk of money that is unavailable to people living on the edge of poverty.  They are not seeking abortions, just healthcare.  With regard to the self-rightious condemnation of abortion:  UNLESS you have helped a woman through her pregnancy, worked for her when her health has suffered because of pregnancy complications, paid her for her time off from work for pre-natal checkups, provided her with emotional and financial support through her hospital delivery of the child or children, paid for her time off during the few weeks following birth, provided income for childcare when she returns to work, provided transportation to and from childcare services, babysat when the child is denied childcare when sick so that the mother doesn't have to miss work/pay to stay at home and provided emotional and financial assistance to this mother until the child reached 18 years of age, you have NO RIGHT to dictate whether a woman chooses to end a pregnancy or have a child.  If you have not adopted unwanted children after helping women financially and emotionally through an unwanted pregnancy, then you have NO RIGHT to dictate whether a woman chooses to end a pregnancy or have a child.  HOW DARE ANYONE DICTATE to another human being how she chooses to  take care of her own body.  Legislation and regulation to obstruct clinics from taking care of people when there is NO EVIDENCE of a safety issue--only a self-rightious, judgmental morality issue-- is SHAMEFUL.  Regulations on healthcare clinics is regulating morality, not healthcare.  Legislation and regulation will never stop people from having sexual relations.   It will only hurt people who have no other access to safe health care.

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