'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The Virginia Board of Health on Friday voted to adopt new regulations for the state's abortion clinics, reversing a June decision that would have exempted existing facilities from rules that opponents claim could force a majority of the state's 20 clinics to close.
If the attorney general's office deems that its office cannot represent the agency for an appropriate reason, "then the statute has a provision where outside counsel can be retained and the attorney's fee is then sent to the Commonwealth and paid out of the risk management fund," Ms. Casey said.
"It's not a matter of our personal preferences," she said. "By adding construction [restraints], we are not harming their conditions. ... I totally disagree that we are limiting access to service."
