In a 5-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Texas abortion access law.
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The state’s stance was that the law, which also requires clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgery centers, was created to help protect the health of women who undergo the procedures.
The state laws were part of a wave of regulations approved by states after a 2007 Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on certain late-term abortion procedures.
“After years of fighting heartless anti-choice politicians who would seemingly stop at nothing to put abortion out of reach, I want everybody to understand, you don’t mess with Texas women”, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Women’s Health. Speaking at a press conference in Houston’s Greenway Plaza, Patrick accused the Supreme Court of setting itself up as a national medical board.
“The same could be said of every effort here to restrict access to abortion here in New Zealand”, Ms Bellamak said. Some Republican Arkansas lawmakers attempted and failed to pass similar legislation in 2015.
The ruling won’t technically have a direct effect on those living in the Scenic City, since Chattanooga hasn’t seen an abortion clinic, or a planned parenthood location, in more than two decades.
Coffield said Planned Parenthood now complies with all of Tenneessee’s abortion laws, but questions the motivations behind them. These “TRAP laws” (targeted regulation of abortion providers) have forced shut abortion clinics in Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, and elsewhere.
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The latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion could have long lasting effects including in IL. Admitting privileges as a requirement for abortion access is not medically necessary.
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Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, said in a statement the decision “should mark the end of Missouri’s campaign to impose unnecessary and burdensome regulations on abortion providers for the objective of making abortion care more hard to obtain”.
