Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion clinic regulations

Given the fact that many Texas hospitals deny admitting rights to doctors performing abortions to appease the large conservative population, this caused almost 30 of the 42 clinics in the state to shut down, and the further allowance of these requirements could have rendered legal abortion in Texas completely impossible.

Bill Duncan, the director of the Center for Family and Society at the conservative Sutherland Institute, tells Fox 13 he believes the Supreme Court overstepped its authority, interfering with a state’s legitimate right to regulate medical practice.

The laws in MS and Wisconsin required doctors to have “admitting privileges”, a type of difficult-to-obtain formal affiliation, with a hospital within 30 miles (48 km) of the abortion clinic.

Wilder said OR lawmakers introduced five bills, one of which would have shut down almost every abortion provider in the state.

Abortion providers said the law imposed medically unnecessary regulations that were meant to shut clinics.

In a major win for abortion rights advocates, the court ruled that the state’s regulations imposed an “undue burden” on women’s right to seek an abortion.

The seven states with pending abortion cases are likely to be the first to feel the legal consequences of the decision. Planned Parenthood, 15-1200.

Wisconsin’s law was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court in November 2015. The center and other abortion rights groups said it would effectively make abortions illegal in North Dakota because it could make it impossible for doctors to meet the number of hospital visits required to gain admitting privileges.

Alabama legislators in 2013 passed a similar law. This year, a law blocked Medicaid funds from paying for preventive services at abortion clinics.

As a result, women had to travel to another state where abortion is permitted, which involves incurring expenses and absence from work, something that working class women could not afford.

“I came here to show support for what’s actually right, women’s rights, women’s privacy and women’s right to their bodies”.

Often, hospitals do not renew admitting privileges for physicians that have not used them, Goodhue said, which could later create problems for Florida abortion clinic. “I sobbed when I heard that we won”, said Ashley Plinkhorn from Austin, Texas, outside the court after the decision was announced. Texas is among states that have passed the laws, and the 20-week ban was not at issue in the case before the Supreme Court, Tobias noted.

In a 5-to-3 decision, the justices struck down a law that set strict regulations governing how abortion clinics operate. Anchor Lester Holt did just that on NBC’s Nightly News, “Supporters said that the law simply raised health and safety standards for abortions”.

“We will continue to empower women with hope and the information they need before making the life-and-death decision of abortion”, she said in a statement.