APNewsBreak: ND abortion docs get hospital access

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Source: AP

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Dakotas-based health care system has granted hospital-admitting privileges to doctors at North Dakota's sole abortion provider, which would bring the Fargo clinic into compliance with a new state law.

In a statement Thursday to The Associated Press, Sanford Health said physicians at the Red River Women's Clinic have been credentialed at its hospital in Fargo.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is helping the Red River Women's Clinic, filed a lawsuit in state court last year challenging the law that requires doctors who perform abortions to obtain hospital-admitting privileges within 30 miles of the abortion facility.

The case was slated for trial this week but was taken off the docket as a result of settlement talks, which the New York-based group announced this week without elaborating.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-nd-abortion-docs-get-hospital-access

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[awoke_in_2003]

1. Off to the greatest...

a tiny victory in the war on women.

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Next on the ND legislative agenda:

a bill requiring all abortion doctors to be at least 9 feet tall. For women's safety, you know.

[wryter2000]

3. I hope the state doesn't pull their credentials

I wouldn't put anything past the anti-choice freaks.

[warrant46]

6. The Criminal cat-lick church is behind this outrage

[Pterodactyl]

4. Good. Now if something goes wrong, the patients will have better access to emergency health care.

[Glimmer of Hope]

5. This is great news! Admitting privileges are an unnecessary requirement for a safe procedure.

Duh.