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March 6, 2020 by pbcnow

Will the Supreme Court reward violence against abortion providers?

From The Hill: BY ELEANOR SMEAL AND TONI VAN PELT, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/485657-will-the-supreme-court-reward-violence-against-abortion-providers

Will the Supreme Court reward violence against abortion providers?
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States are pushing through unconstitutional restrictions on access to abortion that could threaten women’s health and lives, reduce access to healthcare and drastically escalate violence against abortion clinics. On March 4, the Supreme Court will hear June Medical Services v. Russo.

The litigation involves Louisiana’s Act 620, which requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a state-authorized hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. But the untold story about this case is the role of anti-abortion violence and threats.

Fear of anti-abortion violence and harassment has led to many hospitals denying admitting privileges to abortion providers. Nearly one in four abortion providers experienced severe violence and threats of violence in 2018, and 52 percent experienced targeted intimidation and threats, according to the Feminist Majority Foundation’s nationwide survey of U.S. abortion clinics.

That is why the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women Foundation, Southern Poverty Law Center and Women’s Law Project filed an amicus brief in the case, stating our opposition to Act 620.

Read the whole piece here.

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