Abortion providers aim to reopen some closed Texas clinics

On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law regulating abortion.

An abortion-rights lawyer, Sue Frietsche, said the law inflicted heavy financial burdens on abortion clinics throughout Pennsylvania and contributed to the closure of several of them.

“Far too many women still face insurmountable barriers, which is why we are taking this fight state by state”, she said. “With more to come”, Krasnoff added.

By a 5-3 vote, the justices saw through that and ruled the Texas law constituted an “undue burden” on women’s right to have an abortion. More than half of the state’s 41 abortion clinics closed since the law passed in 2013.

They’re reacting to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this week on abortion and urging members of the health board to amend current regulations.

“I am pleased to see the Supreme Court protect women’s rights and health today”, President Obama said in a statement after the ruling was issued.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed in her concurrence Monday: “Many medical procedures, including childbirth, are far more risky to patients, yet are not subject to ambulatory surgical-center or hospital admitting-privileges requirements”. Of more than 40 clinics in Texas that perform abortions, only 19 were able to stay open after the bill was passed.

The decision preserves a woman’s right to choose. Louisiana tripled the state’s mandatory waiting period in May from 24 hours to 72.

Planned Parenthood provided more than 200 medication-induced abortions in its Columbia location between August and November 2015, when McNicholas had privileges through the MU health care system.

The comments marked the first time Trump had publicly responded to the Monday ruling, the court’s first major decision on abortion in over a decade.

Victoria Cobb with The Family Foundation says she is disappointed with the court’s decision.

Under the longstanding measure, women in 18 of 31 states face up to five years in prison if caught doing so.

Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, said he plans to propose a bill next legislative session requiring doctors to inform patients of the ability to reverse medication-induced abortions.

Nonetheless, during those three years it took before the court ruled in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the anti-abortion legislators got much of what they wanted. Both Mississippi and Wisconsin wanted to reinstate admitting privileges mandates-something lower courts struck down-and SCOTUS followed suit by rejecting their bids for appeal.

On Thursday, a federal judge blocked an IN law that outlaws abortions because of a fetal genetic abnormality.

So what would “being on the same side” in pursuing women’s health in Texas have meant in this case? Supporters say they’re critical to informed consent.