{"id":66846,"date":"2015-07-17T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=66846"},"modified":"2015-07-17T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:47:30","slug":"aclu-sues-alabama-save-one-last-second-trimester-abortion-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/aclu-sues-alabama-save-one-last-second-trimester-abortion-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU sues Alabama to save one of its last second-trimester abortion clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-66848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ACLU-Square-Logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ACLU Square Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ACLU-Square-Logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ACLU-Square-Logo.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Alabama over its 2013 law requiring abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges, Life News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/07\/16\/aclu-sues-to-prevent-alabama-from-closing-abortion-clinic-in-tuscaloosa\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion defenders fear the law could lead to the closure of West Alabama\u2019s Women\u2019s Center, the last abortion clinic in Tuscaloosa, which provides approximately 40% of the state\u2019s abortions and is one of only two in Alabama to offer second-trimester abortions. This would allegedly \u201cput women at risk\u201d according to Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, staff attorney for the ACLU\u2019s Reproductive Freedom Project.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, Life News notes that in 2013, investigators from the state Health Department <a href=\"http:\/\/abortiondocs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/West-alabama-womens-center-Health-Dept-Deficiencies.pdf\">found<\/a> that WAWC failed to meet safety standards including hand washing, glove usage, supply cleaning, or safe use of sharps containers.<\/p>\n<p>Live Action News has previously covered additional scandals at WAWC, including <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-aclu-sue-over-new-alabama-law\/\">failures<\/a> to document physician orders and records in 2010 or its own gestational age limits in 2011. Last month, the ACLU <a href=\"\/news\/aclu-gives-alabama-abortionists-medals-promotion-human-rights\/\">gave<\/a> WAWC abortionist Gloria Grey its Baldwin Medal for \u201cdistinguished contribution[s] to the protection and promotion of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Alabama over its 2013 law requiring abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges, Life News reports. Abortion defenders fear the law could lead to the closure of West Alabama\u2019s Women\u2019s Center, the last abortion clinic in Tuscaloosa, which provides approximately 40% of the state\u2019s abortions and is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":66847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,575,695,564,2543,3794,4202,4203],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ACLU sues Alabama to save one of its last second-trimester abortion clinics - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ACLU is suing AL over a 2013 law requiring abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges, fearing the law could lead to a clinic closure.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/aclu-sues-alabama-save-one-last-second-trimester-abortion-clinics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACLU sues Alabama to save one of its last second-trimester abortion clinics - 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