I urge you to eliminate the uneccesary and politically motivated TRAP regulations in Virginia.  Abortion is a safe and legal outpatient procedure which does not require a hospital setting to be safe.  These regulations are a blatant attempt to drive abortion providers out of business and have been successful in doing so. Without clinics that provide these important health services to women, many Virginia women, particlularly the poor and those who live in rural parts of the state are effectively denied their consitituional right to abortion. You do not eliminate abortions by making it difficult for women to obtain safe and legal procedures. We know that inplaces where women have the ability to plan their families poverty rates go down, children recieve better education and famillies flourish.