A federal judge on Wednesday restrained Wisconsin for 10 days from
enforcing its new law that requires doctors who perform abortions to
have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of their clinics.
"(T)here is a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting privileges requirement," U.S. District Judge William Conley wrote in his 19-page opinion and order decision.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin sued Wisconsin on July 5, challenging the constitutionality of Section 1 of 2013 Wisconsin Act 37 (Senate Bill 206), to be codified at Wis. Stat. § 253.095.
Planned Parenthood said in its complaint: "The Act will unconstitutionally restrict the availability of abortion services in Wisconsin by imposing a medically unnecessary requirement that all physicians who perform abortions have 'admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the location where the abortion is to be performed.' Wis. Stat. § 253.095(2). If allowed to take effect, the Act would require plaintiff Affiliated Medical Services to shut down entirely, and would strip plaintiff Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin of the ability to provide abortions in Appleton (resulting in the closure of that health center) and severely curtail its ability to provide abortions in Milwaukee. This will make abortion unavailable in Wisconsin after 19 weeks of pregnancy, leave all areas north of Madison without an abortion provider, and severely restrict the availability of abortions in the remainder of the State."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/09/59185.htm
"(T)here is a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting privileges requirement," U.S. District Judge William Conley wrote in his 19-page opinion and order decision.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin sued Wisconsin on July 5, challenging the constitutionality of Section 1 of 2013 Wisconsin Act 37 (Senate Bill 206), to be codified at Wis. Stat. § 253.095.
Planned Parenthood said in its complaint: "The Act will unconstitutionally restrict the availability of abortion services in Wisconsin by imposing a medically unnecessary requirement that all physicians who perform abortions have 'admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the location where the abortion is to be performed.' Wis. Stat. § 253.095(2). If allowed to take effect, the Act would require plaintiff Affiliated Medical Services to shut down entirely, and would strip plaintiff Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin of the ability to provide abortions in Appleton (resulting in the closure of that health center) and severely curtail its ability to provide abortions in Milwaukee. This will make abortion unavailable in Wisconsin after 19 weeks of pregnancy, leave all areas north of Madison without an abortion provider, and severely restrict the availability of abortions in the remainder of the State."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/09/59185.htm
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