By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Sunday, August 28, 2011
"Pro-choice groups say recently released draft regulations governing abortion clinics in Virginia would be the most stringent such measures in the country and are part of a politically motivated plot to undermine the rights of women to access abortions.
The Virginia Department of Health on Friday issued the highly anticipated rules after a bill passed during last year’s General Assembly session called on the Board of Health to develop regulations that would require facilities that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month to meet the same standards for staffing, security, construction and maintenance as hospitals...
[Former governor Tim Kaine], a Catholic, also waded into the fray, saying that abortion is an important moral issue, and that a moral discussion would be warranted — “but we shouldn’t try to criminalize the decisions of women or their health care providers,” he said Friday on WAMU-FM’s “The Politics Hour.”
“I know about this effort,” Mr. Kaine said. “There was this effort under way when I was governor, but the proponents of it are admittedly trying to overturn Roe v. Wade by other means to make it virtually impossible for a woman to make that choice. I oppose it — I think they ought to just be honest about their intentions.” "
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/28/pro-choice-advocates-say-va-rules-politically-moti/
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