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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]
Action Regulations for Licensure of Abortion Facilities
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 3/29/2013
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1/28/13  9:56 am
Commenter: Leslie Durr, PhD, RN, Private Citizen (Senior Female)

TRAP regulations
 

These regulations are a blatant ideological move - in point of fact, I can have oral surgery with anesthesia or invasive breast augmentation at outpatient surgery centers that are NOT required to have these regulations that are supposedly for a woman's health and safety.

Medically inappropriate and unnecessarily burdensome regulations will restrict access to essential health care services for the women of Virginia and further marginalize young, low-income, uninsured and minority women by decreasing their health care options. 

You are demonstrating your biases by including regulations not based on evidence but rather on ideology.

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