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Friday, September 16, 2011
Women's access to healthcare and family planning
VA Board of Health yesterday passed regs requiring abortion clinics be treated as hospitals by complying with costly infrastructural requirements, thus forcing many of the 22 Planned Parenthood clinics to close. This is not just a social issue about women’s reproductive rights—this is about women's healthcare and a woman’s right to family planning access. Many women will be left without access to birth control, PAP smears, cervical cancer screenings, etc. What should Progressives do to respond?
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