The
Family Foundation of Virginia
Victoria
Cobb, President
Friday,
September 14, 2012
This
afternoon the Virginia Board of Health adopted new abortion center regulations
that include important building standards. In June, the Board voted to
exclude existing abortion centers from building standards, but today it
reversed that decision.
The vote was 13-2!
Pro-life Virginians turned out in great numbers today! That made a huge difference in the outcome. We will send a complete report of today's events later. Below is the statement we released to the media after today's vote:
"We
are pleased that the Board wasn't fooled by the abortion industy's distractions
from the real issue of abortion centers in Virginia found with bloody patient
tables, unsanitized conditions and untrained staffs. An industry that has such
widespread failure to protect the health of women should have no say in how it
is regulated. Virginia's women are better off after today's vote.
"The
hysterical claims of the abortion industry that today's vote denies access to
health care are simply untrue. Today's decision simply requires the industry to
clean up its act. These centers can continue to offer any other service they
provide even it they can't meet these reasonable guidelines. They simply have
to stop performing surgery unless they meet these standards."
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