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 Amend Regulations Following Periodic Review
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 2/11/2015
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2/10/15  12:11 pm
Commenter: Gail Gordon Donegan

Medically-unnecessary restrictions on women’s health centers
 

To the Virginia Board of Health:

As a Virginia resident and voter, I support any effort to repeal Virginia's TRAP laws. I am not aware of a single incident where the width of a hallway was a causal factor in the death or injury of a patient in an ambulatory surgical care center. Architectural regulations imposed on abortion clinics only, which practice only one form of surgery, are designed not for patient safety, but solely to deny women access to safe and legal abortion.

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