Texas asks court to allow closure of most clinics

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Texas asks court to allow closure of most clinics
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated Press | September 12, 2014 | Updated: September 12, 2014 6:11pm

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas asked a federal appeals court Friday to allow the state to immediately enforce a law requiring all abortion clinics to adhere to costly standards required for walk-in surgical clinics, which would close more than half of the state's abortion facilities.

Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to temporarily reinstate the requirement, which was ruled unconstitutional by a lower court last month. The New Orleans-based appeals court has already upheld another new abortion restriction that has shuttered several abortion clinics in Texas.

Enforcement of the surgical-standards provision would close 13 of the 20 abortion clinics currently in operation statewide, said Stephanie Toti, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights. The New York-based group is representing four clinics and four doctors.

That would leave seven abortion facilities in the second most-populous state in the nation. Mitchell said he believed that would be enough, because "the vast majority of the state's reproductive-age women will live within 150 miles" of the remaining clinics.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-abortion-restrictions-at-US-appeals-court-5749656.php

[Kath1]

1. Horrible.

All the more reason to get out the vote for Wendy Davis.

[markmyword]

8. Where Are They?

Where are the women of Texas????

I can't believe that the women of Texas are sitting back and ALLOWING MEN to make decisions about their bodies, when this should be between a women and her Doctor!

What is wrong with them???

Why aren't they in the streets demanding that they should make their own decisions about abortions and that these clinics SHOULD be reopened.

I hope that the women of Texas come out and vote for Wendy Davis!!!!

It's unbelieveable that all these years after Roe vs Wade were STILL fighting the fight.

[shenmue]

2. Good Lord

[alp227]

3. Link to original Houston Chron and AP articles and NYT

AP original site: Texas asks court to allow closure of most clinics

Houston Chronicle original article: State reluctant to enforce Texas abortion law as court battle continues

New York Times: Both Sides Cite Urgency in Court Appeal of a Texas Law on Abortion Clinics

[sakabatou]

4. K&R

God, the state is so anti-woman,

[BrotherIvan]

5. I've got two words

Wendy Davis.

[LoisB]

6. "within 150 miles of the remaining clinics"...to some women I'm sure this might as

well be 15,000 miles.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Republicans' War On Women continues.

[santamargarita]

9. Wedge Issue 101