These targeted regulations threaten the continued availability of safe, legal first-trimester abortion and preventive reproductive health care in multiple locations throughout the state. It is my hope, as both a Virginian and a human being, that the regulations will be amended to be based purely on medicine and science and should not impede women's access to essential health care. Your actions and inactions regarding this and related matters will be remembered by all of us who will live in the world that you are shaping with your decisions right now. We are all in this together.