The effects of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn House Bill 2, a Texas law that restricted abortion access, are already being felt around the nation.
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court followed up its Texas ruling by rejecting appeals from MS and Wisconsin seeking to put in place admitting-privilege restrictions that were struck down by lower courts.
“We actually started getting more abortion-minded clients because they were closed and they would come into our offices”, Wistrand said.
Four days after the Supreme Court tossed a set of Texas abortion restrictions that wiped out half the state’s clinics, Planned Parenthood announced a campaign to repeal similar laws across the country, arguing the legal defense of rules not “medically necessary” has evaporated.
In another devastating blow to the pro-life community this week, pro-lifers in one Canadian province are being denied their freedom to speak outside a local abortion facility.
While both provisions might sound like they promote health, as Texas insists they do, the Supreme Court unmasked that rationale as bogus.
Planned Parenthood officials said they are meeting with constitutional lawyers to prepare a challenge to the Missouri laws that are almost identical to the Texas laws requiring hospital privileges and hospital-like standards for abortion clinics, which the court struck down.
“The impact on Parker County residents was the overload of patients from other parts of the state who sought to partake of the limited services available in the metroplex”, Parr said. Of more than 40 clinics in Texas that perform abortions, only 19 were able to stay open after the bill was passed.
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.
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.
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. An unborn child is capable of feeling pain by 20 weeks after fertilization and likely earlier. “There are still political barriers placed between women to access safe and legal abortions in Virginia”.
President Obama hailed the ruling and said that the Texas restrictions was unsafe to women’s health and posed an obstacle in women’s reproductive rights.
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The Post points out that all eight of the states on Planned Parenthood’s radar now have waiting periods of at least 24 hours and state-mandated counseling.
