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Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Woman’s Health, a Texas women’s health clinic that provides abortions, rejoices as she leaves the Supreme Court in Wash-
ington, Monday, June 27, 2016, as the justices struck down the strict Texas anti-abortion restriction law known as HB2. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics
that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation’s second-most populous state. The case is
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.

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 Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Restrictions on Abortions

MARK SHERMAN                   mitting privileges at nearby  abortions.                     and the use  of drugs that      hands of Texas citizens and
Associated Press               hospitals and forced clinics  Breyer wrote that “the sur-    induce abortions without        their duly elected repre-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The          to meet hospital-like stan-   gical-center requirement,      surgical intervention.          sentatives.”
Supreme Court issued its       dards for outpatient sur-     like the admitting privileges  Amy Hagstrom Miller, the        Justices Anthony Kennedy,
strongest defense of abor-     gery.                         requirement, provides few,     owner of several Texas clin-    Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia
tion rights in a quarter-cen-  The clinics that challenged   if any, health benefits for    ics among her eight facili-     Sotomayor and Elena Ka-
tury Monday, striking down     the law argued that it was    women, poses a substan-        ties in five states, predicted  gan joined Breyer’s major-
Texas’ widely replicated       merely a veiled attempt to    tial obstacle to women         that the decision would         ity.
rules that sharply reduced     make it harder for women      seeking abortions and con-     “put a stop to this trend of    Ginsburg wrote a short
abortion clinics in the na-    to get abortions by forcing   stitutes an ‘undue burden’     copycat legislation.”           opinion noting that laws
tion’s second-most-popu-       the closure of more than      on their constitutional right  Texas Attorney General          like Texas’ “that do little
lous state.                    half the roughly 40 clinics   to do so.”                     Ken Paxton said the law         or nothing for health, but
By a 5-3 vote, the justices    that operated before the      Thirteen states have similar   “was an effort to improve       rather strew impediments
rejected the state’s argu-     law took effect.              requirements, enacted as       minimum safety standards        to abortion, cannot survive
ments that its 2013 law        Justice Stephen Breyer’s      part of a wave of abortion     and ensure capable care         judicial inspection” under
and follow-up regulations      majority opinion for the      restrictions that states have  for Texas women.                the court’s earlier abortion-
were needed to protect         court held that the regula-   imposed in recent years.       It’s exceedingly unfortu-       rights decisions.
women’s health. The rules      tions are medically unnec-    Others include limits on       nate that the court has
required doctors who per-      essary and unconstitution-    when in a pregnancy abor-      taken the ability to protect       Continued on page 6
form abortions to have ad-     ally limit women’s right to   tions may be performed         women’s health out of the