I am a Registered Nurse who has worked initially fulltime, & recently on call for Falls Church Healthcare. I practice with a major company serving our employees for wellness services.

These  temporary regulations adopted now serving as your draft for permanent regulations fill a big notebook binder with ovr 400 pages.      When added to the other VDH  regulations and from the CDC, ACOG, CLIA, OSHA, HIPPA, CMA (medicare/caid), VA Corp. Com , IRS, NAF, ACN, ARHP and various insurance companies, you can see that these small businesses are already swamped with paperwork & regulations. These new regulations would consume time and resources with no foreseeable improvement in patient care.  

If these regulations are to make clinics more safe, why aren’t they being applied to clinics/offices providing laser surgery, colonoscopies, cosmetic and plastic surgery, dental surgery and many other REALLY invasive procedures?

There is NOT a public health crisis regarding our Virginia women’s clinics. To the contrary, these women’s clinics have been operating safely for years--10, in my clinic’s case.  They have been taking care of women with prophylactic exams and treatment (and REDUCING abortions!) by educating about and providing contraception.  

In fact, a woman’s chance of death in pregnancy and childbirth is 10 x  higher than from legal abortion. (NAF)

Have any studies even been done to prove that all of these additional government regulations WILL in fact make women’s clinics safer?   Or will their accommodation take more of our precious time and funds? Has the governor made preparations to supply the needed gynecological services to women if these clinics are forced to close their doors because of the cost of these unneeded regs? OB/GYNs are in short supply.

I would like to invite each of you to visit our clinic to see how much-needed services are currently provided, safely & ethically.

Any new regulations implemented should be thoroughly researched and based on improving healthcare for women in Virginia,  not on religious or political agendas.   Adopting these regulations will be disastrous for women’s health in Virginia.