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Supreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood's Bid to Block Arkansas Law Restricting Abortion

Calvin Freiburger : May 30, 2018  Lifesitenews.com

Planned Parenthood fears that the law would force the closure of its Little Rock and Fayetteville facilities, which only perform medication abortions.

(Washington, DC)—[Lifesitenews.com] The United States Supreme Court will not prevent Arkansas from enforcing a 2015 law regulating medication abortions, despite Planned Parenthood's wishes. (Photo: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge/via LifeSiteNews)

On Tuesday, the court issued without comment an order rejecting the abortion giant's request to block a 2015 law that requires physicians who dispense abortion-inducing drugs to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The decision enables the law to take effect in the middle of July as lawmakers originally intended, though Planned Parenthood intends to continue challenging it in lower courts.

"The Arkansas restriction, which was enacted supposedly to protect women's health, is medically unnecessary," the abortion giant's attorneys argued to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for the state responded that the "commonsense" law "merely requires medication abortion providers to have a contractual relationship (to ensure follow-up treatment if needed) with a physician that has admitting privileges"...

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