Court upholds Louisiana law to protect women from unsafe abortion clinic practices

-Source-The Blaze- A federal court has upheld a Louisiana law that mandates abortion facilities must meet basic health and safety policies according to published reports. What happened? A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stated there is no evidence the law will restrict womens access to abortion as abortion activists had claimed The Hill reported. Under the 2014 law abortion providers must have hospital admitting privileges so patients can receive proper care for emergency complications. Shortly after the law went into place the Louisiana abortion facility Hope Medical Group for Women and the Center for Reproductive Rights launched legal challenges reports state. In 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar law in Texas arguing that it could restrict a womans access to abortion. The 5th Circuit noted that the Louisiana law is different because it did not impose substation burden on a large fraction of women" Life News reported.