Hunter said Madagascar has "a very attentive environmental regulator" but admits: "Requirements to use CCS at some time in the future has not come up in conversation.
Nine other states have local admitting requirements for abortion providers, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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After that, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit challenging parts of the Texas abortion law, including the admitting privileges requirement.
On the day the admitting privileges requirement took effect, in November 2013, the number of Texas abortion clinics plummeted from 41 to 22. Today, there are 18.
The Supreme Court agreed that the Texas admitting privileges requirement constituted an "undue burden" on the right to seek an abortion for those same reasons.
When suit was filed against the Louisiana law, the district court found that despite good-faith efforts put forth by physicians in the state, they were unable to comply with the admitting privileges requirement.
In granting a temporary restraining order on Monday against a Wisconsin requirement of this type, federal district court Judge William Conley said his review of the law "does not reveal any medical expert speaking in favor of the act or otherwise articulating a legitimate medical reason for the admitting privileges requirement".
Opponents of the law say the admitting privileges requirement is unnecessary, since patients in distress are automatically treated in emergency rooms, and that it gives religious-affiliated hospitals veto power over who can work in an abortion clinic and, by extension, whether a clinic can stay in business.
With at least 8 other states that have had their TRAP laws enjoined or invalidated by the courts, according to data published by the Policy Surveillance Program, a decision upholding the admitting privileges requirement could cripple the significance of the victory in Whole Woman's Health.
He also defended the admitting privileges requirement as a common-sense measure to protect women's health, noting that other outpatient surgical procedures generally require it.
