Women's Right VICTORY in Alabama!

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Good for them! Nobody has the right to tell a woman what to do with her body.

A law that would have closed three out of Alabama’s five abortion clinics is unconstitutional, ruled a federal court judge on Monday. The 2013 law, similar to legislation passed across the country, would have required abortion providers to seek admitting privileges at local hospitals.

Alabama’s attorney general said the state would appeal.

In an encyclopedic 172-page decision that followed a three-week trial, Judge Myron H. Thompson wrote that the law violated the standard set by the Supreme Court mandating that states can not place an “undue burden” on woman seeking an abortion.

“The court is convinced that, if this requirement would not, in the face of all the evidence in the record, constitute an impermissible undue burden, then almost no regulation, short of those imposing an outright prohibition on abortion, would,” wrote Thompson.