I commend the Board of Health's decision to move forward with a NOIRA and encourage your adoption of medically-appropriate amendments.

The Board of Health must rewrite the current regulations of women’s health centers to focus on preserving access to quality care and ensuring they are based in medicine and science. Current regulations of Virginia women’s health centers are about politics, not medicine. Doctors, health care professionals, and a majority of Virginians oppose these regulations. If the regulations are not rewritten to protect medical integrity, tens of thousands of Virginia women and families will lose access to critical medical care. 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 rewrite these politicized restrictions so that they rely on evidence-based medicine.