Board of Health,

While it is a sad thing indeed that any woman would feel the need to have an abortion, if she chooses to do so, she should be able to do so in an environment that is CLEAN and safe. Without standards in place that are being enforced, this simply is not happening.Would we make any human being undergo surgery in a bloodstained operating room, with dirty instruments, unclean surgical tables, and biological waste in the room" Would we let any patient undergo surgery without the proper consent forms taken care of"NO we would not, and yet we continue to let millions of women UNDERGO a SURGICAL procedure under this conditions when we fail to implement and enforce standards on abortion centers. Women suffer life threatening infections, and often end up unable to have children at all due to these conditions and yet we are allowing a billion dollar industry to tell us that they cannot afford to implement the most BASIC of safety regulations. We dont even allow free clinics that much freedom, why are we allowing an industry that makes more than a billion dollars to have that much when it is putting the lives of women on the line" Are women really that disposable, that basic sanitation is not needed" The condition of most of these clinics is not much better than the "back alley" abortions they are always saying they are there to prevent.It is time to stand for basic human rights and one of those is to insure that medical care is safe. Abortion is NOT safe when there are not standards in place to regulate health and safety of the patients who choose to have an abortion.It shouldnt even be an issue that abortionists who claim to have a womans health as their first priority would meet these standards. To not require these basic standards is to say that women do NOT matter and that we dont care that women are dying as a result of dirty clinics and unsterilized equipment and untrained staff. Do women matter" Rochelle Alberti