The fight over Texas’s strict abortion law now turns to the U.S. Supreme Court with attorneys representing abortion clinics and individual practitioners in the state filing a petition for review with the high court (Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, U.S., review sought 9/2/15).
The petition challenges an unpublished ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The ruling largely upheld two of the law’s provisions requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges in hospitals within 30 miles of their clinics and that the clinics should meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical ...
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