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Slain Kansas
Abortion Doc's
Clinic Reopening

Jan 22, 2013 11:01 AM CST

Slain Kansas Abortion Doc's Clinic Reopening

Protesters seek rezoning to block facility

(Newser) - After George Tiller was killed in 2009, his abortion clinic in Kansas shut down. This spring, it will once again open its doors—but not without plenty of controversy, the Huffington Post reports. An abortion rights group purchased Tiller's former building, but anti-abortion activists are fighting the reopening. As...

Judge Keeps Mississippi's Only Abortion Clinic Open

Jul 12, 2012 2:00 AM CDT

Judge Keeps Mississippi's Only Abortion Clinic Open

Case could be 'blueprint for abortion foes nationwide'

(Newser) - A federal judge has extended an injunction that is keeping Mississippi's sole abortion clinic open . The judge continued to block a state law requiring anybody performing abortions to have privileges to admit patients to a local hospital, the AP reports. State officials say the law is about safety, but...

Judge Temporarily Blocks
Mississippi Anti-Abortion Law

Jul 2, 2012 3:02 AM CDT

Judge Temporarily Blocks Mississippi Anti-Abortion Law

Law would close state's last abortion clinic

(Newser) - A Mississippi law that could shut down the only abortion clinic in the state has been blocked by a federal judge, at least temporarily, reports the AP . State House Bill 1390 requires anyone who performs abortions at the clinic to be an obstetrician-gynecologist with local hospital privileges. But as those...

Mississippi
May Close Only
Abortion Clinic

Apr 6, 2012 1:36 PM CDT

Mississippi May Close Only Abortion Clinic

Bill would make facility's doctors ineligible to work there

(Newser) - Mississippi has just one abortion clinic, and a bill that's passed the state legislature would likely close it. All it needs now is a governor's signature, and Phil Bryant has said he'll provide it. Under the bill, doctors performing abortions in an "abortion facility" would have...

Abortion Clinic Landlord
Gets a Little Revenge

Abortion Clinic Landlord Gets a Little Revenge

Volunteers call those who called him

(Newser) - Todd Stave is the landlord to an abortion clinic in Germantown, Md, that is especially controversial because it offers late-term abortions. Stave has no problem with protesters outside the clinic—"totally appropriate"—but when they started bombarding his home with phone calls, he decided to fight back with...