The New York Times notes the spread in Southern states, including neighboring Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, of laws aimed at requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. The laws are under challenge. If allowed to stand they will, as designed, wipe out the availability of abortion in broad swaths of the country.

I think you know where this is headed next.

It is de facto, if not de jure, prohibition of abortion. 

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