Va. board adopts strict abortion clinic rules

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Washington Post

RICHMOND — The Virginia Board of Health voted Friday to require abortion clinics to meet strict, hospital-style building codes that operators say could put many of them out of business.

The 11 to 2 vote represented the board’s final say on the matter, which has taken unexpected twists and turns since General Assembly voted in 2011 to regulate abortion clinics like outpatient surgical centers. The regulations will now go to Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, both Republicans, for their review.

Two years ago, the legislature voted to impose more stringent building codes on the clinics. It then fell to health board to implement the new rules, which call for costly physical renovations, such as widening hallways and doorways.

In a surprise move in June, the board voted to grandfather existing clinics from the new standard. But the board reversed itself in September, voting to adopt the regulations without grandfathering clinics. The reversal came after Cuccinelli wrote to board members suggesting that if they did not follow his advice against grandfathering, his office would not defend them in any resulting litigation, and that they could be personally on the hook for legal bills. . .

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/va-board-adopts-strict-abortion-clinic-rules/2013/04/12/fb60d3ca-a35f-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html

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Abortion rights are hanging by a thread in this country, Roe notwithstanding.

[Delphinus]

1. We all need to wake up

and be aware that the rights of women in this country are slipping away.

[SunSeeker]

2. They did it because of Cuccinelli's blackmail. Sick. nt

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[iandhr]

3. Sadly this is not surprising

[cali]

4. your comment that abortion rights are hanging by a thread is spot on

this kind of legislation is designed to wind up in front of SCOTUS and it's likely it will. It also stands a good chance of being upheld and Roe being regulated into irrelevance in 30+ states.

[atreides1]

5. Not a surprise

This bill was introduced not because of some concern for safety but because a group of religious fanatics were elected by religious fanatic voters and supported by religious fanatic groups.

This is just another way for the Christian Tali ban to further their agenda of making women second class citizens, and it'll continue as long as knuckle dragging, mouth breathers vote based on their religion.

We don't have to worry about Sharia taking hold in the US, it's already here...and it's called Christianity(the bastardized version of it)!

[Delphinus]

6. The Taliban

is exactly what I was thinking (head is fuzzy, so I couldn't put the thoughts together coherently). We are second class citizens - have no control over our bodies - we just don't have to wear the burqa.