To: Bruce Edwards, Chair, Paul Clements, Vice Chairman, Kay R. Curling, Eric Deaton, John DeTriquet, James H. Edmondson, Jr., Steven R. Escobar, H. Anna Jeng, Charles K. Johnson, Bennie Marshall, Mary McCluskey, John W. Seeds, M. Catherine S...
Protect women's health centers in Virginia!
Progress Virginia
I oppose regulations that will restrict women's access to comprehensive health care services. I urge the Board to continue to put evidence-based medicine and the health of Virginia women ahead of partisan political agendas.
Virginia's women's health centers are too important. They provide preventative reproductive health care services that include STD and HIV screenings, life-saving cancer screenings, and family planning. Medically inappropriate and unnecessarily burdensome regulations would restrict and deny access to these essential services and detrimentally affect and target young, low-income, uninsured, and minority women by further reducing their health care options.
I am writing to voice my support for the amended TRAP regulations that grandfather in existing clinics so they are not required to meet the same architectural requirements as new construction. This amendment is based on patient safety and health, not politics. I urge you to stand strong for the women and families in Virginia, and to refuse to accept any regulations based on the political agenda of the Attorney General's office.
Virginia's women's health centers are too important. They provide preventative reproductive health care services that include STD and HIV screenings, life-saving cancer screenings, and family planning. Medically inappropriate and unnecessarily burdensome regulations would restrict and deny access to these essential services and detrimentally affect and target young, low-income, uninsured, and minority women by further reducing their health care options.
I am writing to voice my support for the amended TRAP regulations that grandfather in existing clinics so they are not required to meet the same architectural requirements as new construction. This amendment is based on patient safety and health, not politics. I urge you to stand strong for the women and families in Virginia, and to refuse to accept any regulations based on the political agenda of the Attorney General's office.
Why is this important?
Thanks to legislation passed by anti-choice lawmakers and supported by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia is implementing burdensome and medically unnecessary Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers (TRAP). The Virginia Board of Health took a courageous stand to amend the regulations to allow women's health clinics to remain open.
Ken Cuccinelli is trying to veto the Board of Health and shut down women's health clinics, limiting the continued availability of safe, legal, first-trimester abortion throughout the state.
Virginia's women's health centers provide vital health care services like STD screenings, cancer screenings and family planning services, in addition to providing legal and safe abortions. Shutting down these clinics would restrict access to essential services, particularly for young, low-income, uninsured, and minority women.
Tell the Board of Health to stand up to Ken Cuccinelli's bullying and protect women's health centers and women's access to comprehensive health care services.
Ken Cuccinelli is trying to veto the Board of Health and shut down women's health clinics, limiting the continued availability of safe, legal, first-trimester abortion throughout the state.
Virginia's women's health centers provide vital health care services like STD screenings, cancer screenings and family planning services, in addition to providing legal and safe abortions. Shutting down these clinics would restrict access to essential services, particularly for young, low-income, uninsured, and minority women.
Tell the Board of Health to stand up to Ken Cuccinelli's bullying and protect women's health centers and women's access to comprehensive health care services.