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June 13, 2014

Jindal Signs Bill that May Close 4 of 5 Louisiana Abortion Clinics 
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed an anti-choice bill that
could close up to four of the state's five abortion clinics, including
the sole clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The measure requires
abortion providers to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within
30 miles, a step that is often impossible for abortion providers, who
may travel from out of state and often do not admit enough patients each
year to meet hospital minimums. Similar measures have shut down more
than a third of abortion clinics in Texas, threatened the last abortion
clinic in Mississippi and sparked trials which recently ended in Alabama
and Wisconsin.

 

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