The Virginia Board of Health, meanwhile, has signed off on new regulations that could force the closure of some of the state’s abortion clinics. A 2011 measure dubbed by critics as a “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers,” or TRAP law, requires clinics that provide abortions to meet the same building standards as hospitals. Critics say the TRAP rules are a thinly veiled attempt to limit access to abortion services because clinics unable to afford to overhaul their buildings would close down. Other states have imposed similar regulations, but Virginia’s are said to be the harshest to date. The former head of the Virginia Board of Health, Dr. Karen Remley, resigned in protest of the clinic rules last year.