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Supreme Court lets Arkansas abortion restrictions stand for now
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block an Arkansas law targeting medication abortions, which threatens to leave the state with only one abortion clinic.

Without comment or objections from the liberal justices, the court turned away Planned Parenthood's initial challenge to the 2015 law. A federal trial court judge had blocked it as an undue burden on women seeking abortions, but an appeals court said opponents first needed to estimate how many women would be affected.

The high court ruled in 2016 that a Texas law imposing strict limits on abortion clinics was unconstitutional because it would reduce the number of facilities in operation from about 40 to just seven or eight.

Read more at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/29/abortion-restrictions-arkansas-left-intact-supreme-court/651106002/

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Rather ironic that OB's are becoming scarce at the same time because of lawsuits.
Liberals fight to keep abortions cheap while OB's go out of business because they cost too much.
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