HB78 and HB1359: Please vote YES. We are a free state, not a police state. Law enforcement has no need for private menstrual health data; it has no bearing or use in criminal investigations. Please prevent it from being used to control people and make them afraid. HB1539 and HB1493: Please vote YES. Doctors should be free to practice safe, proven medical care that is legal in Virginia without fear of extradition. We don't have to be complicit in other states' cruelty and ignorance, nor turn our back on sound and established science. HB1184 and HB1364: Please vote NO. However good the intentions behind them, abortion bans -- as we've seen in a tide of horror stories from across the country -- do more harm than good. They prevent people who very much want to keep their children from receiving life-saving medical care. Passing these laws will hurt and kill people -- real, actual, living, breathing, taxpaying people, as opposed to the hypothetical unborn. These decisions are best left between pregnant people and their doctors.

The only interest you should have in the menstrual cycle of any female is making tampons and pads free. If you want babies born in Virginia, ratify they ERA, provide maternal and paternal leave, free child care and affordable housing. Keep your laws off of our bodies unless they are too muddy us up. If you pass this Bill, the next Bill you pass better be a law making erectile dysfunction drugs illegal.

HB78 AND HB 1359 Courts of Justice Sub-Committe Criminal-1/24/24. the Alliance for a Progressive Virginia support these similar bills. APV supports a woman's right to control her reproductive health and this includes the right to keep her menstrual history private. In the wake of the Dobbs ruling, woman across the country and here in Virginia are suddenly at danger of having her personal and private health information used against her by a newly empowered, anti-choice police apparatus.

As a healthcare professional , I am shocked and dismayed that a bill allowing search warrants of menstrual history and data is even under consideration! Aside from the constitutional right to privacy , such legislation would be a gross violation of HIPPA, “ The Health Information Portability and Protection Act”, that caregivers are bound by law to protect on behalf of everyone,… everyone! Eileen Davis, RN

HB78 AND HB 1359 Courts of Justice Sub-Committe Criminal-1/24/24 The League of Women Voters of Virginia support these similar bills. A person’s menstrual cycle should never be made public. If a woman is having a health problem, then she and her health care professional should discuss this in private. This is an egregious violation of privacy and government intervention into our private lives. Protecting the privacy of this information is urgently needed–the information stored by digital health apps can be used in court as documentation that a birthing person has terminated a pregnancy. I urge you to support these bills.

YES keep menstrual health data out of search and seizure protect reproductive justice

YES protect private menstrual health data

I strongly support HB78 and urge you to pass it. Menstrual data should be private, and seems wildly irrelevant to any reasonable law enforcement investigation. I'm also horrified by stories of other states using warrants for menstrual data to track and control what people do with their own bodies, to protect their own health. Please enact these important protections for Virginians (and please consider a broader ban on using or selling this and other medical data of, to, or by private organizations).