West Alabama Women's Center v. Williamson

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This lawsuit is an ‘as-applied’ challenge by a licensed abortion clinic in the State of Alabama and its new, sole doctor against a regulation, Alabama Administrative Code § 420 — 5—1—.03(6) (b), requiring that, in order to perform abortions at the clinic, either the doctor must have ‘admitting privileges’ at a local hospital or the clinic must contract with a ‘covering physician’ who has such privileges. The plaintiffs, West Alabama Women’s Center and Dr. William J. Parker, on behalf of themselves and their patients, claim that this regulation is…