Board of Health,

Abortion providers in Virginia want to gut the sensible regulations that protect women who have elected to have an abortion.

The providers make huge profits but are unwilling to fix the unsanitary conditions found by many inspections, and to hire and train qualified personnel. The requirements are not unreasonable, but would cut into their immense profits, that they would rather spend on political campaigns than on assisting their patients to have a safe procedure.

We urge you to KEEP the reasonable, health-conscious regulations that were passed as a result of the bad conditions found in so many clinics. Those inspections proved that we cannot trust the abortion providers to police themselves.

Please IGNORE the abortion providers and their thousands of "astroturf" comments. They do not represent Virginians.

Keep the regulations, and protect Virginias women. Thomas Carnell