Medically unnecessary regulations are burdensome to women who seek abortion in Virginia.  

The current regulations provide NO medical or any benefit to women who seek an abortion.  Requiring women to undergo a 24 hour waiting period, and a medically unnecessary abdominal ultrasound only puts more of a burdon on women who seek safe and legal abortion services.  Requiring clinics to adhere to hospital standard building requirements does not make abortion safer; this regulation only seeks to shutter clinics that are already under increasing scrutiny and additional state requirements which are solely because they provide abortion care.  

Continuing to allow the State to impose these unnecessary and burdensome regulations ONLY to facilities and clinics that provide abortion care is NOT a medical standard!  Shaming women and causing them additional financial burden does not contribute positively toward their care, but instead creates additional hardship.

Please amend the regulations by removing them from the guidelines.