Planned Parenthood’s Austin clinic resumes abortions
Planned Parenthood’s Austin clinic resumed providing abortions Friday after an affiliated doctor gained admitting privileges in a nearby hospital, an official said.
The clinic was among three Planned Parenthood facilities that stopped offering abortions because its doctors did not have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic, as required by House Bill 2, passed last summer by the Legislature.
Doctors in the organization’s Waco and Fort Worth clinics still do not have admitting privileges, Planned Parenthood official Sarah Wheat said.
Planned Parenthood was among the abortion providers that sued Texas to block HB 2. An injunction granted by a federal judge in October was later lifted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the law in January. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to reinstate the injunction earlier this week.
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