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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Mon Jun 29, 2015, 03:53 PM Jun 2015

Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Clinics to Remain Open (Stay)

Source: New York Times

Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Clinics to Remain Open

By ADAM LIPTAK
JUNE 29, 2015
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed nine Texas abortion clinics to remain open while the justices consider whether to hear an appeal from a decision effectively ordering them to close.

The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. voting to deny the stay.

The case concerns two parts of a state law that imposes strict requirements on abortion providers. One requires all abortion clinics in the state to meet the standards for “ambulatory surgical centers,” including regulations concerning buildings, equipment and staffing. The other requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

Other parts of the law took effect in 2013, causing about half of the state’s 41 abortion clinics to close. If the contested provisions take effect, abortion rights advocates said, the number of clinics will again be halved.

“This would amount to a more than 75 percent reduction in Texas abortion facilities in just a two-year period, creating a severe shortage of safe and legal abortion services in a state that is home to more than five million reproductive–age women,” lawyers for abortion providers told the justices in an emergency application for a stay.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/supreme-court-allows-texas-abortion-clinics-to-remain-open.html

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Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Clinics to Remain Open (Stay) (Original Post) Hissyspit Jun 2015 OP

Thank goodness BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #1

I will say it again, the SC is reason enough to vote Democrat in 2016 still_one Jun 2015 #2

Say it again Kber Jun 2015 #3

Ditto still_one Jun 2015 #11

It could be the BIGGEST reason to vote non-PUB. Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #5

No doubt everyone here agrees with that still_one Jun 2015 #10

Malicious intent need not be directly proven, if the actions creates actual results as if one had Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #4

Whew. Although in light of 2 recent decisions Lilith Rising Jun 2015 #6

Rick Perry and surgical centers (from 2013) TBF Jun 2015 #7

good Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 #8

Has anyone checked to see if hell has frozen over yet? murielm99 Jun 2015 #9

Sounds like the SC is trying to save the GOP from itself. nt ErikJ Jun 2015 #12

BumRushDaShow

(129,673 posts)

1. Thank goodness

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 03:59 PM

Jun 2015

This was a late ruling but I guess this is pretty much near the end of their session for the rest of the judicial year.

still_one

(92,454 posts)

2. I will say it again, the SC is reason enough to vote Democrat in 2016

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:01 PM

Jun 2015

Kber

(5,043 posts)

3. Say it again

Reply to still_one (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:07 PM

Jun 2015

and again and again.

It can't be said enough!

still_one

(92,454 posts)

11. Ditto

Reply to Kber (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:06 PM

Jun 2015

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

5. It could be the BIGGEST reason to vote non-PUB.

Reply to still_one (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:16 PM

Jun 2015

God help us all if a PUKE is pretzeldent this time.

still_one

(92,454 posts)

10. No doubt everyone here agrees with that

Reply to Elmer S. E. Dump (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 05:49 PM

Jun 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. Malicious intent need not be directly proven, if the actions creates actual results as if one had

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:08 PM

Jun 2015

malicious intent....the legal reasoning in the public housing discrimination case last week has application to this case as well, and was applied by the same 5 majority judges.

Lilith Rising

(184 posts)

6. Whew. Although in light of 2 recent decisions

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:23 PM

Jun 2015

I guess I should have expected this.

TBF

(32,111 posts)

7. Rick Perry and surgical centers (from 2013)

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:36 PM

Jun 2015

FYI, The back story in case folks haven't heard it - Perry promoted these "ambulatory surgical centers" while his SISTER was working for one of them. Never underestimate how sleazy he can be ...

Texas Politics
Perry’s sister an advocate for surgical centers
Posted on July 5, 2013 | By Patricia Kilday Hart

One of the controversial tenets of the abortion restriction bill would require all abortions to be performed in ambulatory surgical centers, which are a distinct type of healthcare facility set up for outpatient surgeries. Abortion rights advocates say the new requirement would force many clinics to close because they wouldn’t be able to afford to upgrade their facilities. They also say the upgrades are unnecessary and that no data shows current clinics aren’t properly equipped to provide good care.

If the bill passes, only five Texas abortion clinics would remain open — those that are already equipped as ambulatory surgical centers, advocates say. But a question remains: would the 420 other ambulatory surgical centers that exist in Texas begin performing the operation? Abortion rights advocates predict that the demand for the procedure won’t disappear with passage of the law.

One company that will be faced with that decision is United Surgical Partners International, based in Addison, TX. Their vice-president of government affairs is Milla Perry Jones, Gov. Rick Perry’s sister. She is also on the board of the Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center Society ...

http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2013/07/perrys-sister-an-advocate-for-ambulatory-surgical-centers/