Today, the Supreme
Court refused to let Texas enforce an abortion law so restrictive that
it would have forced 10 clinics to close across the state.
The law, House
Bill 2, requires all abortion providers have admitting privileges at
nearby hospitals and holds clinics to the same standards as ambulatory
surgical centers.
These regulations, which supporters of the bill claim
are for the safety of patients, are seen as unnecessarily stringent by
many others — including the American Medical Association and the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which both
submitted an amicus brief opposing the law.
When
other parts of H.B. 2 went into effect in 2013, the law shuttered half
of Texas’s abortion clinics. If the rest of the law goes into effect,
the numbers would drop even further, leaving open clinics clustered in
areas like Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, The New York Times reports, making it much harder for poor and rural women to get abortions, since they have to travel farther to find a clinic.
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