Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Enters Battle for the Supreme Court

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Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Enters Battle for the Supreme Court (http://aclj.org/pro-life/planned-parenthood-abortion-business-enters-battle-for-the-supreme-court) American Center for Law and Justice - ‎Mar 21, 2016‎
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Wisconsin asks US Supreme Court to take abortion case




By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press - Tuesday, March 22, 2016


MADISON, Wis. (AP) - State attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reverse an appeals court that struck down a Republican-backed law requiring Wisconsin abortion providers to obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice argued in its petition to the high court that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals improperly found the 2013 law unconstitutional, arguing that most abortion providers had complied with the law and that the appellate court wrongly considered GOP lawmakers’ intentions in passing it.

The Supreme Court has already agreed to review a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld Texas’ nearly identical admitting privileges law. The DOJ released a statement saying justices may wait to act on Wisconsin’s petition for review until after they decide Texas’ case.

Supporters contend the law ensures continuity of care if a woman develops complications from an abortion and needs to be hospitalized. Planned Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services - which filed a lawsuit the same day Gov. Scott Walker signed the law - contend the statute amounts to an unconstitutional restriction on abortion.

The lawsuit argues the law would force AMS’ Milwaukee clinic to close because its doctors can’t get admitting privileges. That, in turn, would lead to longer waits at Planned Parenthood clinics, amounting to an illegal restriction on abortions in the state.

U.S. District Judge William Conley sided with the abortion providers in March 2015, saying the law promotes no legitimate health interest. The 7th Circuit upheld Conley’s ruling in November. Writing for the 7th Circuit majority, Judge Richard Posner said the law would put more women in danger by increasing wait times for abortions.

Posner also noted the law required providers to get privileges within two days of the law’s enactment, a deadline he said was intended to prevent abortions. Had Conley not put the law on hold, the statue would have forced immediate closure of AMS’ clinic and Planned Parenthood’s Appleton clinic.
DOJ attorneys maintained in their petition that by the time Conley held a trial in the spring of 2014, five out of seven abortion-providing doctors who sought admitting privileges had obtained them. The two who didn’t were AMS providers who made almost no effort to get them, the DOJ argued.

The state attorneys also argued that the 7th Circuit ruling was clearly driven by the majority’s view of the Wisconsin Legislature’s motives, which should have been irrelevant. The petition noted that Judge David Manion, the lone 7th Circuit dissenter, said legislators had a rational basis to act - namely, to protect women’s health - and the two-day deadline could have been an oversight.

Tanya Atkinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, called the petition “irresponsible.”

“Multiple judges have ruled and the medical community agrees … that an admitting privileges requirement does not enhance safety and is intended to put obstacles in the path of women seeking abortion,” she said.

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