Supreme Court denies Wisconsin abortion appeal

In Mississippi, that would have meant the closure of the state’s only clinic.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to pro-life supporters with a ruling against a Texas abortion access law.

Prior to the enactment of HB2, there were more than 40 licensed abortion facilities in Texas, and the number dropped significantly in the wake of the restrictions in the case. He called the decision a devastating blow for women’s safety and health.

Watson said she hoped the state’s attorney general office would abandon the effort to appeal the Alabama case.

In her concurring Supreme Court opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said “it is beyond rational belief that HB2 could genuinely protect the health of women”.

A point Hogan said people are missing is that the Texas law required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals in the same city where the abortions are performed.

“Today’s decision should help put a stop to the recent wave of state-level, medically unnecessary TRAP laws created to scare, shame, or bar women from making their own healthcare decisions”, said Herring. Opponents of the laws said abortion already is a very safe procedure, and contended the real motive of the laws was to reduce women’s access to abortion. Currently, 14 states require doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and 22 states have similar requirements on clinics meeting the standard of an ambulatory surgical center. Such limited access in a state so large would cause an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to obtain an abortion, they said. “And that just like decisions on health care, decisions on health legislation need to be based on facts”. ” He also whined that numerous closed Texas clinics would never reopen”.

The legislative director of Louisiana Right to Life, Deanna Wallace, said the Supreme Court decision doesn’t automatically invalidate Louisiana’s Texas-style law, but it “does not predict a favorable forecast for its future”. Many clinics had faced multimillion-dollar renovations to comply with the law, such as upgrades to air ventilation systems and hallways wide enough to accommodate hospital beds.

“Today’s decision should send a loud signal to anti-abortion politicians that they can no longer hide behind sham rationales to shut down clinics and prevent a woman who has chose to end a pregnancy from getting the care she needs”.

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