The Fifth Circuit Court has struck down the law that would have closed The Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.
See article here:
http://reproductiverights.org/...
More later as it's digested.
UPDATE: Clinic owner Diane Derzis said:
"It's so refreshing when a Republican court actually does the right thing."UPDATE X2
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David S. Cohen
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Drexel University School of Law
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I just skimmed the MS decision from today and the basis of the decision was that 1) closing the one remaining clinic would force women to go to other states and 2) one state cannot satisfy its constitutional obligations by sending people to another state. It is not at all about admitting privileges generally and is very much about the specific facts in MS. It doesn't question the prior TX Fifth Circuit decision at all, instead accepting it and the principle from it that admitting privileges laws generally have a rational basis.