Laura Bassett
First Posted: 8/30/11
"A prominent anti-abortion lobbyist in Virginia who has been pushing the administration to adopt strict regulations for abortion clinics over the past ten years is married to a top state health official, raising questions in the medical community over what kind of influence she had in the new draft of clinic regulations the state released on Friday.
Victoria Cobb, president of the right-wing Family Foundation of Virginia, has been lobbying state lawmakers for the past decade to pass legislation that would force the Department of Health to release abortion clinic regulations like those adopted by South Carolina in 1996 that reduced the number of clinics in the state from 14 to 3. A number of Republican- and Democratic-controlled assemblies in Virginia have been unable to push this type of legislation through, but this year, anti-abortion Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signed SB924 into law, which requires all clinics in the state that perform first-trimester abortions to be regulated as hospitals."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/virginia-cobb-abortion-clinic-regulation_n_942465.html
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