Legal Opinion
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided October 27, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:15cv497-MHTPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Myron H. Thompson, United States District Judge
Providers of abortion and other reproductive-health services in Alabama challenge two 2016 state statutes that regulate abortions and abortion clinics. The first statute, which the court will call the “school-proximity law,” provides that the Alabama Department of Public Health may not issue or renew licenses to abortion clinics located within 2,000 feet of a K-8 public school. 1975 Ala. Code § 22-21-35. The second statute, which the court will call the “fetal-demise law,” effectively criminalizes the most common method of second-trimester…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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3Cited by10 opinions
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