A Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Mo., will lose its abortion license Thursday because its doctor does not have hospital privileges, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that such a requirement is unconstitutional. Opponents of abortion, meanwhile, are bracing to fight back. A spokesman for the state health department said staff are reviewing the Supreme Court ruling to determine whether they can continue to enforce the hospital privileges rule. “With more to come”, Krasnoff added.
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Perhaps that will change with Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg’s warning to lawmakers in her concurring opinion that laws that “do little or nothing for health, but rather strew impediments to abortion … can not survive judicial inspection”.
On Monday, the high court ruled 5-3 that restrictions, even those offering a health benefit, must not cause an undue burden on a woman’s legal access to abortion.
That means abortion clinics in that state will no longer have to meet hospital like standards. They have every right to discourage women from having abortions.
In May, Oklahoma’s Republican-led legislature passed a bill calling for prison terms of up the three years for doctors who performed abortions, but the state’s Republican governor vetoed it.
Supporters said the law would keep women safer.
North Carolina does have other abortion restrictions, like a 72-hour waiting period and a requirement for doctors to submit ultrasounds to the state for abortions after the 16th week of pregnancy. Arizona that month blocked Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.
“Once those laws are not in effect we will immediately reinstate abortion at our Columbia location”, said Laura McQuade, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.
“There’s a pending case involving that, that will go through the courts and the process, and will probably take another year”, Lundberg said.
MS will prohibit a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure, called dilation and evacuation, in which the fetus is dismembered.
Some states have already backed away from abortion regulations that mirrored the restrictions in HB2.
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. 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.
“Regardless of where one stands in the abortion questions we need to make sure women are in the environment where they can have a safe procedure”, said Cobb. They can quote the Supreme court ruling in the Texas case.
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Some, no doubt, gave birth to children they didn’t want or didn’t feel they could adequately support.
