Second Lawsuit Against Texas Abortion Law To Be Filed

Update: On a conference call earlier today, plaintiffs of the second lawsuit challenging parts of Texas’ abortion restrictive law expressed their deep concern for women of the state suffering as a result of the law and the strain the legislation has—and will—place on the providers. Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Woman’s Health, a network of reproductive health centers, described the regulations as “onerous” and directed attention to the impact on the abortion care landscape. Of the four centers she operates in Texas, two have closed due to the law’s admit privileges requirements and she predicts the remaining two centers will close after the ASC rule goes into effect in September. With the new suit, she and her plaintiff partners are now hoping to grant new life to the shuttered Whole Woman’s McAllen center and soon to be closed Reproductive Services El Paso center by using a narrower “applied challenge” to the physician requirement. Highlighting what they see as a nonsensical rule, reproductive health advocates say that out of the roughly 30,000 abortion care patients seen at the El Paso and McAllen clinics, just two needed hospital admitting privileges.  “Over the past 10 years in Texas politicians have thrown up […]