TRAP laws

More clinics in Illinois are spending large amounts of money to fix "safety issues" after inspections.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's proposed budget would cut the entire $455,000 in state funding to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative which supports programs at schools and clinics in seven health districts, including Alexandria, which have the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the state.

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The Rockford Clinic of Illinois is a good example of how targeted regulations can work to shut down or immobilize an abortion provider.

All it takes is one signature from the governor to potentially shut down all the clinics in the state.

Using the Kermit Gosnell incident as its impetus, the state seeks to add regulations to clinics that will likely shut most, if not all of them, down.

Pro-choice activists have dubbed the bill a "back-door abortion ban."

Tomorrow, September 17 is Constitution Day, a day to commemorate the formation and signing of the Constitution and to celebrate the rights guaranteed within. In place of celebration, we are reminded that women’s rights are under attack.

Virginia's Governor McDonnell and Attorney General Cuccinelli think they’re about to get away with restricting choice under the radar.

Despite hearing strong testimony from young men and women, medical professionals and pro-choice advocates, the Virginia Board of Health, under pressure from the Attorney General’s Office, advanced the most onerous anti-choice regulations in the country.

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.

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