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Jindal Signs Bill that May Close 4 of 5 Louisiana Abortion Clinics

HeadlineJun 13, 2014

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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