Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities [12 VAC 5 ‑ 412]
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6/17/14  10:45 am
Commenter: Boni Kreider

Protect Patients / Regulate Abortion Centers
 

I appreciate your time in considering my thoughts. Common sense and wisdom would dictate any facility that deals with humans in the area of physical healthcare should have extensive rules and guidelines. For instance, we have rules for housing people (landlords), we have rules for feeding people (restaurants), we have rules for beauty (nail salons/beauty or barber shops), we have rules for massage therapy and chiropractors. If we have rules governing housing, food, and outside the body care, how much more should we have regulations for inside the body care?!

Just as the government has spot checks for other businesses around cleanliness, compliance, safety, and general health safety, the abortion industry must have safe, clean, and well documented rules with extremely stringent disciplinary actions when they are violated. I would think you could follow the same rules placed on surgeons and hospitals since abortion is an outpatient procedure. It might be easier to restrict abortion centers from offering any medical assistance and limit them to counseling only. Send all patients to a certified/regulated hospital for regular outpatient surgery where safety, cleanliness, transparency, and rules protecting both the hospital and the patient are in place. Please place patient safety and care above business that is only concerned about the dollar. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

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