Board of Health,

It is incumbent upon you to protect the families of Virginia, and part of that responsibility is to protect women: adults, children, and babies, born and unborn. The fact that you find abortions to be permissible is beyond me, but if you insist on allowing them, the least you can do is protect the women who seek the abortions by requiring that Planned Parenthood and others meet abortion center health and safety standards so that when there is a life-and-death crisis, there is a chance for rescue, let alone proper equipment and sterilization procedures in place. Dont tell Virginians that you fight for women when youre not willing to enforce even the most basic medical care in abortion clinics to save womens lives in the midst of horrific circumstances. Melanie Wallace