If you are going to allow abortion, the taking of an alive unborn child's life, to be legal; then you have an obligation to make the facility and the procedure safe for the women making this choice.  One argument that I have heard promoting the legalization of abortion is that women will have them anyway in unsafe and unsanitary environments endangering their own health.  So if abortion centers are not regulated then nothing is preventing them from being unsafe and unsanitary and why have it be legal at all.  Abortion is a surgical procedure and needs to be done in an appropriate environment that is clean and safe for the patients.  While I question the appropriateness of calling abortion facilities  "healthcare" facilities, the fact remains that doctors are performing surgery on women and it needs to be done in a safe manner.  The women after all have the same right to life as their unborn children and their lives are no more or less valuable.

Not only should the facility have strict scrutiny of standards so should the physicians.  When a physician comes to Virginia to practice medicine because he/she has lost medical licensure in another state, that does not speak well of our Commonwealth or the high standard of health we wish to offer the women of this state.  Perhaps we need a law preventing the practice of medicine in Virginia if a physician has had his/her license revoked in another state.