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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2/13/12  12:38 pm
Commenter: Sharon Utz, Nurse Educator

New regulations harm, do not help, women
 

These regulations are NOT needed to protect the health and safety of women, but are regulations that are extremely expensive burdensome government intervention that may cost thousands or millions of dollars and may create the opposite by financially forcing closures. These regulations are likely to endanger women's access to locally needed reproductive health and safety across the state. The statistics are 98% of women use birth control and for some they have failure of method, usage, or worse by being forced against their will become pregnant.  Women can decide as they are allowed to under the law of the United States of America to continue to carry a pregnancy to term or to have an abortion.  Statistically their health outcomes are said to be some 7 times safer to have an abortion.  It is unreasonable that a woman should be forced to be delayed or to travel long distances for her affordable and safe reproductive health and services as a result of the said regulations..

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