Alabama Restrictions on Abortion Doctors Unconstitutional
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Alabama’s requirement that abortion clinic doctors have admitting privileges at local hospitals unconstitutionally burdens womens’ rights to the medical procedure, a federal judge ruled.
While the decision is a defeat for abortion opponents who, in recent years, have pressed legislators across the country to enact laws limiting availability and regulating those who perform the procedure, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in Montgomery, Alabama, confined his ruling today to the parties in the case before him and declined to immediately issue a sweeping injunction.