Fighting onerous rules for clinics

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/fighting-onerous-rules-clinics

Fighting onerous rules for clinics
OpEd
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 31, 2014

A review of costly building regulations governing Virginia abortion clinics will wrap up its public comment period today, a 45-day phase that has drawn thousands of messages from supporters and opponents across the commonwealth.

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Republicans, aided by pro-life Democratic state senators, pushed through a bill in 2011 that reclassified clinics that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month as a category of hospitals and applied new architectural restrictions to them.

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Without favorable court rulings, amending the 2011 law is the only way to preclude repeated changes in the clinic regulations. Comments can be submitted through today at this link: http://townhall.virginia.gov/L/comments.cfm?periodicreviewid=1316

Absent court intervention or rewrites to the law, the commissioner and board members should revert to the initial regulations that grandfathered existing clinics.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Kicking. Thank you. nt