I urge The Board of Health to repeal and rewrite the current regulations of women’s health centers to protect women’s health and preserve access to comprehensive reproductive care. The  current  regulations of Virginia women’s health centers is an egregious intrusion in the private medical matters of the women of Virginia by polticians and interest groups who simply want to ban a safe,  constitutional authorized medical procedure.  It is about politics, not medicine.  Doctors, health care professionals, and a majority of Virginians oppose these regulations. Access to a range of medical services, not just abortion, will be limited or even lost to thousands of women in the Commonwealth.  The current burdensome and medically-unnecessary regulations will close women’s health centers, restricting access to the comprehensive health care these centers provide, like critical cancer screenings and birth control, including abortion. I urge the Commissioner and Board of Health to rescind these politicized restrictions and begin drafting new regulations that rely on evidence-based medicine.