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. I received an Apple Watch as a gift. It includes an app called "cycle tracking". We live in a world of all kinds of data collection. Just like we have HIPAA laws that require patients to give permission for family to access our health data, there should be no difference here.

I am a constituent of Sr. Bagby and ask that the Senate Committee pass SB16, Menstrual Data Privacy. 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.

Re SB16 The right to privacy is a core constitutional right, and certainly a women’s menstrual date is a private matter. ALSO , sharing menstrual data without patient consent, is a gross violation of HIPPA, and subject to 10,000 $ per incident of information sharing. Medical professionals and menstrual app managers would find themselves in a legal and medical minefield, and unable to function if a law (SB16) was passed , which would be in direct conflict with Constitutional rights and HIPPA. The chaos in the health professions and providers that would ensue would seriously undermine patient care- Eileen Davis,RN

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.

Private menstrual data should not be used by anyone! Protection of personal health information is primary.

Reproductive freedom is a Constitutional right. The Right to Privacy prohibits criminalizing personal medical information. Vote Yes on SB16!

Submitting comment in support of SB16 (Favola) on behalf of REPRO Rising Student Fellow: Lily Stevenson, College Student, University of Richmond The Menstrual Data Privacy Act would provide critical protection for people like me who use health apps to track various aspects of their reproductive health. We live in a world with increasing dependency on social media, health apps, communication technologies, etc. and we must not be criminalized for this. Reproductive health apps have been a huge help to me and my friends in tracking various aspects of our health. As a woman with polycystic ovarian syndrome, I use these apps to track various symptoms to be able to predict when they will come or decide on whether I need to speak to my doctor. Without these protections, I would fear how people could use this data against me. We should not have to worry about the potential for criminality when tracking our health. This bill is also a part of larger conversations about data privacy. Our increasing dependence on technology should not be a part of various forms of criminalization. Privacy is important, especially when health and lifesaving care are on the line. Period tracking apps have been a crucial method of reproductive health management, especially due to their low costs. We must protect the data stored in these apps; it should not be used against us. This bill is important because it would set a precedent that our private data should not be used as a tool to incite fear or as a tool of criminalization.