SCOTUS Abortion Ruling Could Affect Tennessee Laws

[spanone]

let's hope so....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Texas abortion restrictions could affect the outcome of a federal court challenge to two Tennessee laws.

On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down Texas laws requiring abortion clinics to meet hospital-like standards and requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

Similar laws in Tennessee are the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. According to court records, the admitting privileges requirement became law in 2012 and resulted in the closure of two of Tennessee's eight clinics providing surgical abortions.

Of the six remaining clinics, two face possible closure because of strict new clinic standards adopted by the legislature in 2015. They are suing, along with a third clinic.

http://www.newschannel5.com/news/local-news/scotus-abortion-ruling-could-affect-tenn-laws

[malaise]

1. It will affect RETHUG laws in at least

12 states -too good.

[tonyt53]

2. Sure will

[riversedge]

3. Also Wisconsin.............

.........The ruling could have an immediate impact on other cases that had been working their way toward the Supreme Court from Louisiana, Mississippi, Wisconsin and several more states in which restrictions have been challenged by abortion rights supporters.

The provision at issue in the Wisconsin law was blocked by a court ruling immediately after GOP Gov. Scott Walker approved it 2 1/2 years ago. It would have required doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they perform the procedure.................


http://www.jsonline.com/news/usandworld/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-texas-abortion-restrictions-b99751555z1-384536571.html

[spanone]

4. Yes!!!

[underpants]

5. Virginia has facility laws too, I think. N/t

[CincyDem]

6. I hope this puts and end to this crap in Ohio too. n/t

[Orrex]

7. When Republicans came up with this tactic in the first place...

I'm sure that they were patting themselves on the back for their cleverness.

"We'll tell them that we're concerned about the woman's health," they no doubt sneered to one another.


Thankfully five justices saw through that bullshit and recognized the law for the oppressive anti-abortion blockade that it was intended to be. Imagine how differently a different court might have ruled.