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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2/14/12  3:49 pm
Commenter: Lynn Fox, average American woman

Protect women’s access to reproductive health care
 

By putting onerous regulations on women's health centers, you are introducing a foreign matter into a woman's body...namely, a State government.  At a time when some politicians are screaming for smaller government, you are attempting to implement larger government restrictions on women.  A woman should and is the proper judge of what is right for her body.  Safe first trimester abortion, while not for everyone, is not everyone's right to pass judgement on an individual.  Americans are entitled to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  Do you think you are allowing this with this kind of regulation for every Virginian?  I do not!

Religion notwithstanding...should not enter into it either.  You, as politicians, must put aside your personal opinions.  You may be opening a new industry...a back alley abortion industry that will cost lives.  I lost a cousin many, many years ago because she was pregnant, Catholic and condemned as a sinner.  So she found someone, and died from a horrible infection as a result.  At least in a woman's clinic, safe medical techniques are applied.  Many medical procedures are done in outpatient clinics now, are you going to start regulating those procedures, too?  And think of what it does to a women who lives right at or below the poverty level.  Is it okay to let her suffer?  How is that proper?  How is that Christian?  I'm sorry but politics do not have a right to my body or any other woman's body.  What the Governor and Attorney General want is wrong, just plain wrong and a political ploy only that panders to extreme right wing politics.  Be better than that.

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