After finding so many health violations in Virginia's abortion clinics, it is evident that more attention needs to be given to this health concern. Women deserve better care. When you find sanitary conditions and up to date medications and staff with the proper training and records that are kept properly, then you can rest. Until then, your job is NOT DONE. Keep vigilant and keep women safe.

You should also make these records more available to the public. We want to know what you find on these inspections just as much as we would at a local restaurant, hospital or other public place.

Sincerely,

Ann Niermeyer

 
Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

Help safeguard the health of women and stop killing babies.  I think we all agree that science has proven it is a human life.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

Please ensure that facilities that behead and dismember pre-born babies in utero are not allowed to compound this evil by operating in less than absolutely safe and sanitary conditions. Just because a pre-born child currently has  no legal right to live, the Commonwealth should not compound this evil be allowing abortion providers to endanger the health of  its mother by operating in less than absolutely sanitary conditions.

Women who choose to access abortion clinics need safe and qulaity care.  It does no good to relax regulations which are in place to promote safety, quality care and health. Becuase abortion clinics think of themselves as healthcare facilities they need to be bound by the sme regulations which all other helathcare facilities are bound by.
 

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The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”ext and enter your comments here. You are limited to approximately 3000 words.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.

The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

 
Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”e over this text and enter your comments here. You are limited to approximately 3000 words.

Any interference in a pregnancy is major bleeding right now.  A uterus can bleed big time and the patient can bleed out in 20 min, Bleed out!!  I know as I am an old OBGYN RN and have seen it happen. ITs malpracitce to allow this.  'gi

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

Regardless of where you are on the issue of abortion, women deserve better treatment.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”
 

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”
 

 Preserve Vital Health and Safety Regulations for Virginia Women
 
Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

To those who can correct this shortcoming:

Common sense regulations to prevent women from being placed in great danger in abortion clinics must prevail. There is no reason not to expect any woman from having to put her health at risk simply because we fail to demand that her health remain a high priority during a procedure that can quickly go from non-life threatening to great risk of death.  There have been all too many cases when the life women have been unnecessarily endangered because of political reluctance to ensure they have the necessary certified care, as well as the ability to quickly be put in the care of a hospital should the abortion go terribly wrong for the woman in addition to the baby that is killed.

There are dozens of procedures that involve far less statistical risk for the woman that also have very strict rules in place to protect women in the unlikely event of a problem.  Not to ensure the appropriate level of treatment for women at an abortion clinic is a guarantee that women will be put at risk instead of taking the action that should have been put in place long ago.

Please exercise the opportunity to protect women from needless risk and further trauma to their minds and bodies that already are significant with any abortion.

Thank you and God Bless you!
Brian Prindle

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

Regards,

Scott Lear

Common sense says abortion clinics need same safety/cleanliness regulations that hospital/health care facilities do.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

Please protect all people in all of our medical facilities, regardless of the services provided, for all Virginia women especially. 

Abortion is often described as a woman's healthcare service. If that is indeed true then abortion clinics should be required to have the same sanitary standards, the same health and safety requirements required of any other healthcare provider.  In abortion clinics women are recieving obstetrical and gynecological exams and treatments, in other words, invasive medical procedures. Sterile and sanitary equipment and utensils, as well as, sterile and sanitary examination and surgical bays are necessary for the services in an abortion clinic to be appropriately descrbed as healthcare services.

Strong regulations of abortion facilities are very important to the health of women who come to these facilities with the assumption that the facility is as safe as any other health care facility. Abortion facilities should not be allowed to self regulate just as any other medical facility is not allowed to do so. Critical health and safety regulations must be maintained, not weakened if women's health is truly deemed to be important.  

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

 

A clean facility providing care that would not harm a lady is essential.  Quality standards should not be ignored.  

Women's health can and must be protected throughout Virginia by maintaining the the regulations that presently govern the women's health clinics around the state.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and should be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is.

Abortion centers, like most places of business, require outside monitoring in order to maintain the highest standards of health and safety.

Abortion centers should adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities.

The health and well-being of Virginia women deserve this level of protection.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

 

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

I have written repeatedly and I don't know what I can say further to impress upon you how crucial is the need to enforce strict safety regulations in all Commonwealth medical clinics, including abortion centers.  As a medical professional myself, just considering the psychological trauma alone, of women undergoing abortions (please view the film "The Silent Scream"), leaves me breathless with horror.  But the D&C/D&E procedures performed by unregulated -- and therefore unsafe -- abortion "clinics" (sometimes without anesthesia for those who cannot afford to pay for that) often have more in common with the horrors of so-called "back-alley" abortions than with anything that could be termed "healthcare".  In the name of our loving God, please get past the denial and SEE  the cruel negligence we are allowing!    With you in prayer,  Patricia Froehlich RN BSN

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.  If abortion facilites are really interested in the health of women they should also want to maintain high standards.  
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are necessary and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate.
 

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.   Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them.  However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities.  Virginia women deserve nothing less.

Please ensure that abortion clinics, where some of Virginia's most vulnerable women can be found, meet strict health and safety regulations.  As the recent closure of the Fairfax abortion facility proves, these regulations protect women from unhealthy and sometimes dangerous environments.

All medical facilities should be subject to the most rigorous safety standards.  Why would abortion facilities ever be excluded  from this common sense practice?

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”

As a longtime peer counselor at a local pregnancy care center, I have heard the same complaints from our clients about the (now closed) Amethyst Women's "Health" Center in Manasses for years, including injuries that resulted in hospitalization.  Clearly the types of regulations finally being enforced were a long-needed and commonsense step.  It would be a serious and irresponsible move to weaken or remove these regulations.

 
Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.”
 

Abortion centers should both follow the same DOH/JCAHO regulations as those outlined for Medical Centers.  These standards should be mandatory across the board as anything less endangers the women.   .  

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Simply, Virginia women deserve nothing less.

The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them. However, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakened.
 
The suspension of operations at a Fairfax abortion facility due to 26 health and safety violations proves that the regulations are working and must be preserved as is, not watered down. The abortion industry has fought regulation for years, yet repeatedly independent inspectors find serious deficiencies, even during announced inspections. Abortion centers are not able to self-regulate. Abortion is not healthcare because it ends lives instead of healing them; however, since abortion operates under the guise of healthcare, abortion centers must adhere to the regulatory standards of other healthcare facilities. Virginia women deserve nothing less.

Abortion center regulations are essential for the health and safety of Virginia women and must be maintained, not weakend.  Abortion is not healthcare since it terminates life, rather that heal it.  However, since it has come to operate under the guise of  healthcare, it must adhere to the same regulatory standards as other healthcare facilities.

TypIf you truly care about women's rights. you will maintain health and safety standards for all clinics of any kind.e over this text and enter your comments here. You are limited to approximately 3000 words.