Once these temporary regulations, please create new regulations that move to protect women and ensure their safety. 

While persons may personally disagree with abortion, it is a safe and legal procedure. These unnecessary and 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.

While I understand recent headlines have focused on to health care providers who do not follow protocol and, as such, put their patients at higher risks- these are a rarity and not welcome in the pro-choice community. Please consider regulations that aim to provide all persons with quality medical care but maintain a woman's access to this medical care. 

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.

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. Overregulation 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. 

Thank you for the consideration.