Virginia Coalition to Protect Women's Health

07/17/2013

Have you been following the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers in Fairfax? Check out Catherine Read's op-ed asking the Fairfax City Council to reconsider it's new anti-choice zoning law. We need your help to spread the word. Read her letter and share!

There’s something I learned in college that has always stuck with me: Political theory is not formed in a vacuum. How we see the world is informed by the times we have lived through. I’m a native of Virginia and most of my life has now been lived here in Fairfax. I’ve made it my home and raised my c...

07/15/2013

Check out number three on WaPo's list of the most important legal fights on abortion in the U.S., Falls Church Healthcare Center.

As court fights have become increasingly critical in shaping the nation's abortion laws, here's a look at more than half-a-dozen of the most important cases pending right now in state and federal court.

07/02/2013

Jezebel on Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers and how what's happening in Texas (and Ohio) doesn't stay in Texas (and Ohio, or VA, or any of the other states on their handy map). Check out VA.

Last Tuesday, one-woman filibuster machine Wendy Davis and her angry feminist army blocked the Texas GOP from voting on an evil omnibus anti-abortion bill. Success! Until the next day, when Governor Rick Perry, Grand Protector of Ladies From Themselves, announced a second special session so he could...

07/01/2013

Texans are fighting back! The battle isn’t over in Texas, and it’s not over in Virginia either. Just last month Virginia’s Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers went in to effect, and threaten the closure women’s health centers across the state. Politicians around the country remain focused on banning abortion and attacking reproductive health care. Across the country, we must stand together against bills that set extremist precedent for other states to imitate.

06/26/2013

Who else is up late tonight to ? You can watch at the link, via RH Reality Check . The bill Wendy is filibustering contains a Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers provision, designed to shut down clinics. We in VA know too well the effect TRAP has on women's healthcare, and we thank Wendy and all the amazing activists in the people's filibuster for keeping us inspired to fight harder here.

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) is conducting a filibuster of SB 5, which would shut down all but five abortion clinics in the state and ban ab

06/21/2013

Yesterday, we issued the following statement in response to the first day of the Commonwealth’s unprecedented targeted regulations on abortion providers taking effect. Read and share!

STATEMENT ON UNPRECEDENTED ABORTION REGULATIONS TAKING EFFECT IN VIRGINIA TODAY; COULD SHUTTER MAJORITY OF WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINICS BY 2014

05/31/2013

On April 12th, the Virginia Board of Health gave its final approval to burdensome and unnecessary regulations on women's health centers.The new rules for women’s health centers may be final, but the Board of Health STILL needs to hear from you! June 19th marks the end of the final 30-day public comment period and the last step in a two-year saga to oppose the regulations and keep our clinics open. Take action now!

June 19th marks the end of the final 30-day public comment period on new regulations for Virginia women's health centers and the last step in a two-year saga to oppose the regulations and keep our clinics open.

04/12/2013

The Board has voted to approve the regulations, refusing to grandfather in existing women's health centers by a vote of 11-2.

04/12/2013

"I saw no awning. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go inside for fear what I would find." Public commenters speak out using satire to talk about the application of medically unnecessary regulations completely unrelated to women's health and safety.

04/12/2013

The Board is hearing an overview on the licensure process for women's health centers. All centers have been inspected and granted unconditional licenses. See their process here:

04/12/2013

Will your voice be heard? Stay tuned, the Board meeting is about to begin!

04/12/2013

Making our voices heard at today's last Board of Health meeting!