I am a constituent of Sr. Bagby and ask that the Senate Committee pass SB15, Prohibition on Extradition. We've seen other states intent on criminalizing abortion use this and other tactics to intimidate women and their health care providers. Do not let this happen in Virginia! Let's be clear that Virginia stands on the side of women. Thank you, Roxane Rucker 3333 W Franklin St Richmond, VA 23221

I support both of these bills: SB15: Many patients are traveling out of state to access abortion care and reproductive health services. It’s important to protect providers and patients from criminalization or punishment of critical health care. SB16: Personal, private menstrual data should not be used to incite fear or as a tool for criminalization. Protection of privacy of sensitive health information is critical in a time when reproductive healthcare, including abortion care, is under attack.

SB15: Many patients are traveling out of state to access abortion care and reproductive health services. It’s important to protect providers and patients from criminalization or punishment of critical health care. SB16: Personal, private menstrual data should not be used to incite fear or as a tool for criminalization. Protection of privacy of sensitive health information is critical in a time when reproductive healthcare, including abortion care, is under attack.

We owe it to our daughters, granddaughters, and their loved ones to protect them as best we can, from those that would would take their bodily autonomy and reduce them again to 2nd class citizens.

Progress VA strongly supports both SB 15 and SB 16. Passing SB15 will demonstrate that the General Assembly is not willing to play political games with the lives of pregnant people. When patients are forced to travel out of state to access reproductive health care services, we must commit to protecting them from criminalization and prosecution in their home state: this important bill will fulfill that goal. By passing SB 16, you will demonstrate that everyone in our community deserves the right to medical privacy. It is grossly intrusive for the state to go on a fishing expedition in people’s sensitive medical data, and we strongly support the patient protections guaranteed by this bill.

Members of the House Courts of Justice Committee, I write to urge your support for SB 15 (Prohibiting Extradition for Reproductive Services, Sen. Favola) and SB 16 (Prohibiting Menstrual Search Warrants, Sen. Favola). The two bills, which are scheduled for discussion this afternoon, constitute two of the most important laws Virginia can pass this year. SB 15 and SB 16 are critical protection for Virginia's women, any and all women who come to Virginia seeking healthcare they are denied in their home states. Recently passed laws passed in other states are punitive, leading healthcare providers and women into documented situations where any pregnancy might endanger a woman's health and well-being. In Tennessee, Idaho, Mississippi, Texas, and others, Republican lawmakers are actively threatening jail time and travel restrictions for women who may or may not be pregnant based on location data, online searches, or other individual's testimony. Republicans in states that have drastically curtailed abortion access in the post-Roe world are, in effect, treating girls and women from the point at which a girl may become pregnant - the average age of menstruation for American girls is 12 years old - as a potential criminal and subject to the kind of state surveillance which is not visited on or applied to any other group. This not only denies agency to girls and women, but creates a social framework where women's lives are secondary to any potential fetus', that they are disposable, and that their potential, on penalty of criminal charges, is ultimately no more than their potential to birth a child. Being a girl who has her period is not a crime. Becoming a woman who reaches her potential with or without a child is not socially undesirable. Those within our society who seek to control women, to make women subordinate as a category, and to punish women for the audacity to believe in a potential beyond childbirth must be pushed back against with every available tool. SB 15 will help protect both Virginia's sovereign citizens and those who seek legal care in Virginia. SB 16 is an important step in constraining bad actors from using women's health information to target them for prosecution and provide the absolute minimum of protection from state surveillance of private data. Please pass SB 15 and SB 16 to protect Virginia's providers, patients, citizen, and women from the criminalization or punishment of critical health care. Sincerely, Ryland Potter HD-57 SD-16 CD-1

SB 15 and SB 16 deal with Women’s basic human rights. Nothing is more personal than one’s menstrual data and women’s health decisions . What a woman chooses to do with her body and how her body functions is intensely personal. Government does not have the human right to interfere with these decisions relating to a woman’s body.

Please protect our Virginia citizens from criminalization by other states. Vote Yes! on SB15!

It is important to protect providers and patients from criminal charges. Patience and doctor should be protected.

Hello, my name is Alexandra Fiul. I’m a student at Christopher Newport University but I’m from North Carolina, specifically the Outer Banks. Thank you for the opportunity to speak before you. In my hometown, all healthcare, including reproductive healthcare and the ability to access abortion, is severely restricted due to geography, a lack of clinics, and a lack of transportation. In a state where difficulty attaining services like physicals is common, clinics providing abortions are few in the state of North Carolina. From my home in Kitty Hawk, the closest office offering abortions is over four hours away. The closest clinic to my home is Planned Parenthood in Virginia Beach, a little over an hour away. People in Eastern North Carolina frequently choose healthcare services in Virginia over North Carolina due to the proximity and high quality of these offices. Abortions are, of course, no exception. As a college student who spends most of my time here, I ask you to please protect members of my community, other college students who spend the bulk of the year in residence in Virginia, as well as anyone else traveling from out of state, access necessary healthcare. I urge you to please support this bill. Thank you.

Daphne Bernal, Student, George Mason University My name is Daphne Bernal, and I implore you to pass this Extradition Prohibition Bill. It is imperative to protect our Virginia healthcare workers and patients from being prosecuted in other states for performing procedures that are legal in Virginia within the state of Virginia. Our Commonwealth must remain vigilant in protecting citizens from malicious legislation that has no jurisdiction in our state. I have been a patient of the same OB/GYN for nearly a decade. She has always treated me effectively, efficiently, and amicably. I fear that if Virginia law will not protect her as she practices medicine, she will relocate to another state that affords her more rights and protection. The effect would be devastating, as she would leave me and hundreds of other patients without care. If there aren’t enough doctors, who will treat the citizens of Virginia and keep us healthy so that we can continue to contribute to the growth and prosperity of the Commonwealth? For the sake of Virginia, vote YES to the Extradition Prohibition Bill.

Lily Stevenson, Student, University of Richmond I strongly believe that this piece of legislation is crucial in the movement for reproductive justice, especially with Virginia’s unique position as the only state in the South without a post-Roe abortion ban. As a college student living in Virginia, I am grateful for the state’s current stance on abortion and care because I, nor my friends, should have to worry about accessing that care. This makes me more confident in my decision to go to school and live here. This bill is important for my friends who live in other Southern states where they cannot access abortion or reproductive health care. We should not worry about being charged for violating our home states’ laws after receiving care in Virginia. Reproductive health care and abortion workers must be protected because they are doing lifesaving work and should not have to fear being criminalized by other state laws for providing care to someone who does not live in Virginia.