Yesterday Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a federal lawsuit against Arkansas state officials over a law passed last spring requiring doctors to follow FDA protocols when administering abortion drugs like RU-486.
One of the provisions in the law requires the abortion clinic to contract with a physician who has admitting privileges at a local hospital to handle emergency complications resulting from abortion-inducing drugs. According to various news sources, Planned Parenthood is suing the state in part because it says it cannot find a doctor with whom to contract.
Planned Parenthood says if the law is enforced–and if it is unable to find a doctor with whom to contract–then Planned Parenthood no longer will be able to perform drug-induced abortions in Arkansas.
You can read the full text of the law here.
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