{"id":5205,"date":"2014-08-04T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:57:03","slug":"judge-myron-thompson-rules-alabama-abortion-clinic-law-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/08\/judge-myron-thompson-rules-alabama-abortion-clinic-law-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Myron Thompson rules Alabama abortion clinic law unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/al_seal-300x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5207\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/al_seal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"al_seal-300x300\" width=\"221\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/al_seal-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/al_seal-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/al_seal-300x300-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson today ruled an Alabama law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, saying that it poses an undue burden on women&#8217;s right to abortion.Abortion providers sued to block the law, passed in 2013, saying it would force three of Alabama&#8217;s five abortion clinics to close.The law has not been enforced while the lawsuit is pending.<\/p>\n<p>The clinics use traveling doctors who could not get admitting privileges, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson held a three-week, non-jury trial in May and June. In a 172-page opinion released today, the judge wrote: &#8220;The evidence compellingly demonstrates that the requirement would have the striking result of closing three of Alabama&#8217;s five abortion clinics, clinics which perform only early abortions, long before viability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson had initially planned to rule in July,\u00a0but last week notified attorneys that he was delaying his decision until today to give him more time to study the opinions in a federal appeals court ruling on a similar law in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court last week ruled 2-1 that the Mississippi law was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/08\/judge_myron_thompson_rules_ala.html\">Judge Myron Thompson rules Alabama abortion clinic law unconstitutional | AL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson today ruled an Alabama law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, saying that it poses an undue burden on women&#8217;s right to abortion.Abortion providers sued to block the law, passed in 2013, saying it would force three of Alabama&#8217;s five abortion clinics to close.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7,6],"tags":[835,1743,1265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}