The Board of Health must completely repeal and rewrite the current regulations of women's health centers to protect women's health and preserve access to comprehensive reproductive care.

Courts have overturned similar politically motivated restrictions on access to a safe and legal abortion in other states. The regulations in Virginia are NOT needed or necessary for patients' safety. Instead, these restrictions endanger women's health and limit a woman's constitutional right to health care of her choosing. Virginia should not spend precious resources on further defending the current regulations of women's health centers. 

These regulations of Virginia women's health centers are about politics, not medicine.

Doctors, health care professionals, and a majority of Virginians oppose these regulations.

Virginia women's clinics provide a wide range of health services to women - including cancer screenings and contraception; for some women, this is their main or only source of health care. If the regulations are not repealed and rewritten, tens of thousands of Virginia women and families will lose access to critical medical care.

I respectfully request that these regulations be repealed.