Any day now it is anticipated that Governor Bob McDonnell will sign off on the abortion center safety regulations recommended by the Board of Health and mandated by the General Assembly. The regulations require, among many other things, licensing and unannounced inspections by state officials. This took on new relevance today when, in his budget speech, the Governor included the following:
“I have also included $1.1 million in state funding to address the shortage of medical facility inspectors, allowing the Department of Health to hire 13 full-time inspectors.”
Could one possibly be related to the other?
To all that profess to be “pro-life:” Now that the NTSB has recommended that all states completely ban all cell phone use while driving to save innocent lives, we will surely see which lawmakers are truly “pro-life” and which ones are simply anti-abortion.
All you “pro-lifers” want these live babies so you can create dead soldiers.
Virginia has become an embarassment with its crazy extremist right-wing politics. I suggest you stop worrying about trying to control women (and shame on the women in your organization) and focus on something that will truly help society.
[...] take the word of an industry, which includes Dr. Steven Brigham, that their facilities are safe. Governor McDonnell included in his budget proposal funding for additional health facility inspectors at the Department of Health. While we know abortion center inspections will not be the only sites [...]