Last spring, as members of and public servants on the independent Virginia Board of Health, a majority of you acted in the public interest by grandfathering in structural requirements for existing abortion clinics and exempting them from the medically unnecessary and ideologically driven TRAP regulations designed to put most of them out of business. Then, the ethically and morally challenged Attorney General Ken Cuccineli used bullying and intimidation tactics, along with bad legal advice that ignored past precedence, to strong arm a majority of the board into reversing course. Now, you either have to exempt these TRAP regulations from being applied to existing abortion clinics, or you have to apply all new regulations in like manner to existing hospitals and outpatient surgery clinics.  Equal protection of the law does not allow selective and targeted enforcement based on ideology, politics or religious beliefs.