The Virginia Board of Health today did what most women's health and rights advocates both feared and expected it to do by adopting medically unnecessary regulations on abortion providers in the state.
The Norfolk, Virginia based reproducive health and justice pioneer believes that proposed TRAP regulations will "compromise the confidentiality of patients as well as drastically limit access to abortion care."
With the global population expected to surpass 7 billion, we can only expect that the unmet need for family planning services, which currently exists for an estimated 215 million women globally, will only increase.
In their constant effort to obfuscate and redefine the issues, anti-choicers are trying to change the definition of pregnancy as a precursor to outlawing contraception. Unfortunately, corporate media "fact-checkers" aren't doing too well keeping it straight either.