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June 3, 2016

ACLU Sues Alabama over Law Treating Abortion Clinics Like Sex Offenders
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The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Alabama over anti-choice
restrictions, including a law that treats abortion clinics like sex
offenders. The measure banning abortion clinics from operating within
2,000 feet of a K-through-8 public school would shutter the only
abortion clinics in Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, which together provide
more than half of all abortions in the state. The Alabama Women's Center
in Huntsville is located across from a school; it was forced to move
there to comply with other anti-choice restrictions. The ACLU also
challenged restrictions that ban a safe abortion method and force
abortion providers to give every patient a copy of her medical records,
even if she doesn't want them.
Topics:Alabama Abortion

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