Forcing hospitals who have been safely practicing in their current facilities for years to make unfounded structural changes will put Virginia hospitals out of business, limit access to health care, and increase costs.   However, if existing hospitals CAN be grandfathered in as they have always been, then so can the clinics, which are now defined as hospitals.
 

Abortion is no different from many other outpatient procedures that do not trigger the burdensome regulations that are now applied to women’s health care centers. There is no legitimate reason to impose a different interpretation of the law, mandating extremely onerous new construction standards on health care facilities that have been safely providing quality first trimester abortion care to Virginia women for 40 years, especially when no other existing entity is required to meet those standards.