Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 11:44 am
...reversing the Alabama Supreme Court without hearing oral arguments in the case...
That's a judicial "Oh, Snap!" right there.
...reversing the Alabama Supreme Court without hearing oral arguments in the case...
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in Alabama issued the 53-page ruling, saying the provision in the state's so-called Women's Health and Safety Act would effectively close the only abortion clinics in Alabama's three largest cities: Montgomery, Mobile and Birmingham.
"The staff-privileges requirement would make it impossible for a woman to obtain an abortion in much of the state," Thompson wrote. "It is certain that thousands of women per year - approximately 40 percent of those seeking abortions in the state - would be unduly burdened."
