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The Fifth Circuit Has Put Texas Abortion Clinics in Crisis
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to suspend a ruling upholding harmful anti-abortion provisions from June 9, despite an emergency request filed by womens health care providers asking the Court to preserve abortion access for all Texas women.
The Texas Appeals Court previously stated that forcing a woman seeking abortion care to leave the state does not pose undue burden. The ruling from earlier this month also reverses a lower courts order blocking Texas admitting privileges requirement except as applied to a single doctor.
Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Womans Health, said that the June 9 ruling put a road full of unnecessary hurdles in front of every woman in Texas who has decided to end her pregnancy For scores of Texas women, the repercussions of this ruling will be devastating.
Indeed, an estimated 1.3 million women of reproductive age will now live more than 100 miles from the nearest abortion clinic. This provision has already forced approximately half of the states abortion clinics to close their doors over the past two years. The court claimed that this is not an undue burden on Texas women, despite only seven clinics in Texas currently meeting these standards. The decision means 13 clinics are facing imminent closure, leaving only 9 in the entire state of Texas.
The womens health care providers will now submit an emergency application to the Supreme Court of the United States, requesting the Supreme Court justices stay the Appeals Courts June 9 ruling. This would allow the clinics to stay open while the providers ask the Supreme Court to review the case.
As the Fifth Circuit once again turns a blind eye to the devastating consequences of Texas clinic shutdown law, it is imperative that the Supreme Court step in, said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. No woman should be forced to cross state lines or travel hundreds of miles for essential health care.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/06/22/the-fifth-circuit-has-put-texas-abortion-clinics-in-crisis/
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The Fifth Circuit Has Put Texas Abortion Clinics in Crisis (Original Post)
niyad
Jun 2015
OP
the 5th circuit is more than conservative, it appears to be insane. definitely woman-hating.
niyad
Jun 2015
#2
forget canada, these bastards hate women so much that they would rather the women died.
niyad
Jun 2015
#6
Forcing poor women to incur travel expenses for an abortion is an undue burden.
Glimmer of Hope
Jun 2015
#7
Gothmog
(145,487 posts)1. The 5th Cir. is a very conservative court
I hope that the SCOTUS grants a stay
niyad
(113,524 posts)2. the 5th circuit is more than conservative, it appears to be insane. definitely woman-hating.
Prism
(5,815 posts)4. Horse. Shit.
"The Texas Appeals Court previously stated that forcing a woman seeking abortion care to leave the state does not pose undue burden."
Why not Canada, while they're at it?
niyad
(113,524 posts)6. forget canada, these bastards hate women so much that they would rather the women died.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)7. Forcing poor women to incur travel expenses for an abortion is an undue burden.
And travel requires time off work. It is not simple and easy.
niyad
(113,524 posts)8. and THAT is one of the main poins about these woman-hating exercises.
question everything
(47,521 posts)9. But, no, they are not anti women. Right (nt)