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"It's hard to list all the ways admitting privileges laws don't make sense," Drexel University law professor David Cohen says.

About 10 other states, including Alabama and Texas, have similar admitting privileges laws that have forced a growing number of clinics to close.

A case challenging a similar law in Wisconsin will go before the federal appeals circuit court in Chicago next week, and other cases challenge admitting privileges laws in Mississippi and Alabama.

While most Mississippi women leave the state to undergo an abortion – often because it's a shorter distance to reach those facilities – Rikelman says clinics in neighboring states like Alabama and Louisiana have faced similar legal challenges due to their respective admitting privileges laws.

"These admitting privileges laws are not about making abortion safer, which is why major medical organizations don't support them".

Courts have blocked six of the Texas-like admitting privileges laws, including measures in Wisconsin and Alabama.

This May, a case challenging an Alabama admitting privileges law will go to trial.

The Red River clinic, which relies on a doctor who flies in weekly, says it will be forced to close if the state's admitting privileges law takes effect.

A new facility in Oklahoma – where an admitting privileges law is all but certain to be struck down – will bring the number of clinics there to three.

The admitting privileges law will probably lead the Red River clinic to shut down, Ms. Kromenaker said, because there are only two hospitals within the required radius, and she was uncertain whether her doctors would be allowed privileges there.

One day after the ruling, the supreme court declined to hear the case for a similar admitting privileges law out of Wisconsin – which would have shut one of the state's three clinics – in effect striking the measure down.