The Board of Health must completely repeal and rewrite the current regulations of women's health centers in order to better protect women's health by preserving access to comprehensive reproductive care.

 

All health professions should be regulated, but these politically motivated restrictions aren't necessary for patients' safety. Instead, these restrictions endanger women's health.

 

The current regulations of Virginia women's health centers are clearly about partisan politics, rather than the practice of good medicine.  In fact, doctors and health care professionals, as well as a majority of Virginians, oppose these regulations.

 

If the regulations are not repealed and rewritten, tens of thousands of women and families in Virginia will lose access to critical medical care.