I strongly support making the recently-adopted health and safety regulations for Virginia's abortion "clinics" permanent.  There is no practical or ethical justification for allowing for-profit invasive surgery on human beings to be carried on with no state regulation or oversight whatsoever, and instead relying on the discretion and consciences of the business operators to altruistically ensure patient safety.  We don't do this with any other area of medical practice, for reasons obvious to any sane person.

Ever since abortion advocates were pushing for legalization in the 60s, their constant mantra has been, "abortion has to be legalized, because otherwise it will be praciced by incompetent persons under unsafe and unsanitary conditions!"  The obvious implication of this argument, which the unwary are expected to swallow, is that legalization of the procedure would necessarily be accompanied by regulations assuring safety and sanitation; otherwise the argument makes no sense.  Abortion advocates who claim to be supportive of the female patients should, theoretically, be the loudest champions of their rights to "safe" abortions.  In practice, the abortion industry (like every other industry) fights every commonsense regulation that would increase overhead one iota, and they have absolutely zero concern about how many customers they maim and kill, as long as the money keeps rolling in.  So all we've changed is that now the famous "back alley butchers" operate the same way they always did, but now they can advertise in the Yellow Pages.  What's wrong with this picture?