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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on Alabama's abortion law (all times local):
4:06 p.m.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says his office is ending the legal fight over an Alabama abortion law requiring doctors to have hospital admitting privileges.
Strange made the announcement Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a nearly identical law in Texas. Justices in a 5-3 decision overturned the Texas law requiring admitting hospital privileges for abortion doctors and requiring surgical-like settings at clinics
The attorney general said his office will end their appeal of a judge's 2014 decision finding Alabama's law unconstitutional.
Strange said he was disappointed by the Supreme Court decision. However, he said Alabama could no longer make a "good faith argument" that the law was constitutional.
If the admitting privilege requirement was enforced, as many as four of the state's five abortion clinics would close.
12:20 p.m.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down abortion clinic regulations in Texas likely means the end of a similar law in Alabama.
Justices in a 5-3 decision Monday overturned a Texas law requiring admitting hospital privileges for abortion doctors and requiring surgical-like settings at clinics
Alabama legislators in 2013 passed a similar law. A federal judge in Alabama ruled the admitting privilege requirement was unconstitutional.
Susan Watson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, called the Supreme Court decision a victory for women and abortion access.
Watson said she hoped the state's attorney general office would abandon the effort to appeal the Alabama case.
If the admitting privilege requirement was enforced, as many as four of the state's five abortion clinics would close.
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