Federal Court Hears Arguments on Alabama Admitting Privileges Law

Sacramento Bee/AP: Judge hears arguments over Ala abortion law, by Kim Chandler:

Opponents of Alabama's new abortion clinic law told a federal judge Friday that three of the state's five clinics will close and poor women will have significantly curtailed access to abortion if the law goes into effect.

Lawyers for the state responded that the law was approved to protect women's health and that the court can't know the actual result on clinics ahead of time. . . .