Federal judge preempts Texas' new abortion law before it takes effect

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/28/fed-judge-texas-abortion-limits-unconstitutional/​

A federal judge on Monday blocked part of a recently signed Texas law that requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday that the provision violates the rights of abortion doctors to do what they think is best for their patients and would unreasonably restrict a woman's access to abortion clinics. Attorney General Greg Abbott is expected to file an emergency appeal of Yeakel's order to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers brought the lawsuit, arguing that a requirement that doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic would force the closure of a third of the clinics in Texas.

The Texas requirements are perfectly reasonable, particularly given that no hospital in the U.S. has currently practicing abortion doctors on staff or with privileges.

Even more disturbing is this blurb from the article:

They also complained that requiring doctors to follow the Food and Drug Administration's original label for an abortion-inducing drug would deny women the benefit of recent advances in medical science.

Really?? They know better than the FDA as to what constitutes due diligence for a doctor using a very restricted prescription drug?