FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 4, 2014

CONTACT: Brooke Anderson, ACLU of Alabama, 334-420-1750, [email protected]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following can be attributed to Susan Watson, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama regarding today’s ruling in Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. v. Strange:

"We are glad that Judge Thompson found the admitting privileges to be unconstitutional.

These admitting privileges were not designed to make women safer. Major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, oppose them. We are proud to know that Alabama’s women will continue have access to safe and legal abortions."

Read the full ruling here.