Thank you to the Virginia Board of Health for its vote to amend medically unnecessary restrictions designed to shut down women's health centers in Virginia. These restrictions are solely about denying access to abortion. Three of 21 women's health centers in Virginia have been forced to close or stop providing abortion services, in part due to these restrictions. If the restrictions remain unchanged, additional health centers will close - cutting off access to preventive health care such as cancer screenings to thousands of Virginia women.  Medical experts, including Dr. Karen Remley, the former Virginia Health Commissioner, and the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists oppose these restrictions because it’s clear that the restrictions have nothing to do with patient safety and everything to do with inserting a politician between a woman and her doctor.