The restrictions in the Mississippi and Wisconsin laws were identical to those in the Texas law struck down by the High Court earlier this week. They would have required physicians to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic where they perform abortions.
These privileges are hard to obtain, according to Reuters, and would have shuttered Mississippi’s only abortion clinic. A similar requirement pending in Alabama was dropped after the Supreme Court ruling Monday, according to the report.
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