Abortion Foes Seek to Revive Hospital Privilege Requirements (1)

Anti-abortion states that unsuccessfully tried to require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals are revisiting those old laws, just in case there’s a future swing away from the recent Dobbs decision.

Louisiana is leading the way. It already asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reinstate the admitting privileges law to discourage abortion access. That law, known as Act 620, was declared unconstitutional in 2020, but the legal landscape has changed because of the US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned ...