Judge Richard Posner, writing for a divided 2–1 panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in an opinion filed on Monday that Wisconsin’s 2013 law requiring all abortion providers to obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional. Admitting privileges are one of the two issues the Supreme Court agreed a little more than a week ago to decide when it accepted a challenge to Texas’ omnibus abortion statute HB 2. Dahlia Lithwick Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate. According to the , Wisconsin is one of 14 states that have required similar admitting privileges. Such provisions have been declared unconstitutional in...
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