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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: 240B on May 31, 2018, 11:57:05 am
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The Daily Caller
KEVIN DALEY
5:04 PM 05/29/2018
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a challenge to an Arkansas law that restricts access to so-called medication abortions.
The denial, a moderately surprising result, hints at pending changes to the Court’s present composition.
The law at issue in Monday’s case requires clinics that administer medication abortions to contract with a physician who has hospital admissions privileges. Medication abortions, or RU 486 procedures, allow women to terminate a pregnancy by orally consuming a pill called mifepristone, followed by a second pill called misoprostol a day and a half later. The process is only effective within the first seven weeks of pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood sued to stop enforcement of the law. The case is called Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma v. Jegley.
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