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  12:16 pm
Commenter: Melanie Barr

TRAP laws restrict women's health, not better it!
 

It is near laughable to suggest that these TRAP laws were put in place to increase the quality of women's health care.  The fact that the anti-choice movement is hiding behind the line, "Keep women safe", when they have zero interest in women's health issues, tells everyone just where the political priorities are at in this state- which are certainly not to uphold or respect the law.  Trying to cowardly shut down termination providers based on a religious group's belief system undermines what this country is based on and is quite frankly, very scary. 

The state of Virginia will never move forward in business, education, or ethics as long as anti-choice, anti-women, anti-equality, lobbyists pay their way into ultimate authority.    

This issue has NOTHING to do with health care and EVERYTHING to do with violating women's rights.

We the people- are not stupid.  And we are not being fooled.

If health care was the real issue here, we'd see these laws apply to all exisiting health facilities, not just termination providers.  Until that happens, let's not pretend this is a matter of increasing health care quality. It's insulting.   

    

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