Texas abortions fell sharply under law Supreme Court voided

Likewise, Pavone, Dannenfelser et al. would have urged Texas hospitals to grant admitting privileges to doctors performing abortions in the state.

CBC Radio-Canada reports the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador issued a decision Tuesday blocking pro-lifers from protesting within 40 meters (about 131 feet) of the Athena Health Clinic abortion facility in St. John’s, Canada. “We’ve been on pins and needles not knowing when this ruling would come down”. Not to mention the need to ensure the continued availability of screenings for cervical cancer and other non-abortion-related diagnostic services performed at the clinics.

The court ruled that the regulations were medically unnecessary, and unconstitutionally limited a woman’s right to an abortion.

Alabama’s attorney general said the state would stop enforcing its hospital privileges requirement based on the court’s decision.

Bhavik Kumar, an abortion provider with Whole Woman’s Health, which was a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, said this week that when a clinic closes, its lease is lost, staff has to be rehired and state licenses must be reissued. We wonder how much postpartum support the Texas legislators provided those women.

Consider the headlines: “Supreme Court Is Really Done With Anti-Abortion Laws For A While” and “Anti-abortion advocates continue push for restrictions”.

“The first priority bar is move to invalidate it in, in a state where it is active and then to look in Kansas and Oklahoma shortly there after in how to make sure those laws never go into effect”, said Laura McQuade, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.

“While the Supreme Court decision on Monday doesn’t have an immediate impact on Virginia, all of our laws remain on the books”, said Anna Scholl, the executive director of Progress Virginia.

The repeal campaign, announced Thursday, will initially target laws in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia, as well as measures in Texas that were not directly addressed by the Supreme Court ruling. A similar Kansas law has been suspended because of a lawsuit.

23 states require abortion clinics to maintain hospital like surgical facilities while 10 more states require doctors conducting abortions to maintain admitting facilities at a nearby hospital.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which had filed an amicus brief supporting the Texas law, released a statement condemning the ruling.

“You won’t even have to bother going to court, you’re going to know the answers”. By 2014, the latest for which data is available, there were 5,060. Louisiana tripled the state’s mandatory waiting period in May from 24 hours to 72.

Over the past five years, state lawmakers have passed at least 300 abortion restrictions, shuttering clinics across the country.