Planned Parenthood cannot resume abortions at a clinic in central Missouri after a federal judge ruled that state restrictions were not “undue” burdens on women seeking abortions.
Current Missouri law requires clinics that provide abortions to have physicians with admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The Columbia clinic has been unable to secure a physician with those privileges after a panel of medical staff at University of Missouri Health Care decided to stop offering the privileges in 2015 during a Republican-led legislative investigation on abortion in the state.
The clinic filed a motion in December asking for an exemption from that requirement so the Columbia clinic could resume abortions. St. Louis has the only clinic able to offer abortions in the state.
U.S. Western District Court Judge Brian Wimes ruled Friday that the admitting privileges did not affect enough women to constitute an undue burden, The Columbia Missourian reported .
Wimes also wrote that requiring women to drive farther to obtain an abortion was not enough of a burden to rule in Planned Parenthood’s favor.
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Where is the outrage? Here is a Democrat elected to the Maryland House of Delegated caught using the "N" word recently at an Annapolis cigar bar and she refuses to resign. Joe, please post this story from the Liberal Rag "Maryland Matters" to show how Democrats get a free pass why Republicans would have been annihilated after using the "N" word.
Lawmaker’s Racial Slur Roils State House
By Bruce DePuyt| Danielle E. Gaines -February 26, 2019
Del. Mary Ann Lisanti (D-Harford) released a statement on Tuesday afternoon apologizing for her “word choice.” She also said she has agreed to participate in sensitivity training.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that members of the Legislative Black Caucus met with Lisanti on Monday night “over allegations that she told a white colleague, during an after-hours gathering at an Annapolis cigar bar, that when he campaigned in Prince George’s on behalf of a candidate last fall he was door-knocking in a ’n—– district.’”
“I pray for forgiveness.”
Sounds like Speaker Busch is going to give his Democrat buddy a free pass.
In his statement later in the day, Busch held out the possibility of redemption for Lisanti, but took pains to make no promises regarding her future.
“I hope that through the sensitivity training that Delegate Lisanti has agreed to and the help of her colleagues, she will develop a greater understanding of the impact that she has had on her fellow legislators and the entire House of Delegates,” Busch wrote.
“Like anyone who has made a mistake, she has the opportunity for redemption – but it is her responsibility to do so and earn back the trust of her colleagues.”
https://www.marylandmatters.org/2019/02/26/lawmakers-racial-slur-roils-state-house/
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