Anti-Abortion State Lawmakers Assert Rights in Federal Cases

West Virginia’s Republican attorney general will defend a new law that requires abortions to be performed in hospitals by physicians who hold admitting privileges, while GOP lawmakers in North Carolina and Arizona are seeking permission to argue for upholding their states’ restrictions.

The US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Tuesday granted Patrick Morrisey’s request to intervene in a suit filed by the state’s only abortion clinic. Women’s Health Center of West Virginia sued members of the state’s medical board in early February, arguing that the hospital and physician-only provisions violate the US Constitution because they aren’t ...