Project 21 Backs Louisiana Law Under Supreme Court Scrutiny
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Protect Women Instead of Abortionists, Say Black Activists
** Project 21 Backs Louisiana Law Under Supreme Court Scrutiny
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Washington, D.C. - The Project 21 ([link removed]) black leadership network is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, noting that black women are at risk of unnecessary and disproportionate harm during abortion procedures.
Project 21 signed onto a amici curiae (“friends of the court”) legal brief in the case of June Medical Services v. Gee ([link removed]) , which will be argued on March 4. The brief, representing black conservative and pro-life organizations, asked the justices to uphold the lower court ruling in favor of Louisiana’s Act 620. This law requires “that every physician who performs or induces an abortion shall ‘have active admitting privileges at a hospital that is located not further than thirty miles from the location at which the abortion is performed or induced.’”
Declaring that “[t]he black community experiences a disproportionate share of abortions, often from doctors that do not have the same credentials as those who perform other forms of surgery,” the brief ([link removed]) noted that the law “confers a substantial medical benefit that justifies any minimal burden.” It added that opponents “seek to escape the oversight that admitting privileges provide.”
“Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court will tackle laws created by conservative states to ensure that women who choose to abort their unborn babies will have the safest experience possible. With Planned Parenthood clinics across the country - like one near me in St. Louis that has had over 80 ambulance calls ([link removed]) over the past ten years - it is clear that abortion isn't always safe,” said Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington ([link removed]) . “Requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital makes medical sense.”
Authored by former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, the legal brief argued that Act 620 promotes women’s health - and black women’s interests, in particular - by:
* “requiring that abortion providers employ competent, credentialed physicians.”
* ensuring abortionists have “undergone the same verifications of surgical ability, education, training, practice record, and criminal history as physicians at other outpatient clinics.”
* making sure abortionists have “malpractice or other misconduct reports appear in the National Practitioner Data Bank.”
* showing that abortionists “can maintain continuity of care in the event of an emergency that requires her hospitalization.”
“As the primary recipient of abortion services in the state of Louisiana,” the brief stated, “black women share the State’s interest in ensuring abortion providers meet hospital credentialing requirements and can provide appropriate continuity of care.”
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