WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear Wisconsin's effort to begin enforcing a new abortion law, leaving a federal judge's stay in place.
The decision is at least a temporary victory for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services, which filed a legal challenge to the law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospials. U.S. District Judge William Conley, who has not yet ruled on the law itself, put a hold on enforcing it last year.