We must rely on evidence-based medicine and repeal these sham restrictions on Virginia women’s health centers. There is not, and never has been, a medically justifiable reason for regulating abortion providers like they are hospitals. Instead, these restrictions were designed to shutter doctors’ offices and clinics that provide abortion services and prevent women from receiving access to healthcare, including cancer screenings, birth control and safe abortion. These restrictions are unconstitutional and put an undue burden on women seeking abortion and other simple medical services. The Board of Health must heed the expertise of doctors, medical professionals and legal experts in voting to protect providers of abortion services from onerous, medically unnecessary and unconstitutional regulation.