Texas-like abortion laws are already starting to fall after the Supreme Court's ruling - Vox

"As in Texas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Alabama all required doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges with a nearby hospital. And as in Texas, those laws threatened to shut down clinics — in Mississippi’s case, the last abortion clinic open in the state.

Admitting privileges laws are one example of what pro-choice advocates call TRAP laws, or targeted regulations of abortion providers, because they impose regulations on abortion doctors that don’t apply to similar medical procedures. Often, those regulations are specifically designed to shut down abortion clinics.

As a federal judge explained when he struck down Wisconsin’s law last year, admitting privileges are particularly difficult for abortion providers to get. Hospitals typically require doctors with privileges to admit a certain number of patients a year. But because abortion is so safe, abortion providers almost never have to admit their patients to a hospital. "

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