MADISON, Wis., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin law requiring abortion doctors to obtain hospital admitting privileges was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.
In a 2-1 ruling, Chicago's 7th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Monday with a lower court that a provision of Wisconsin's abortion law offered a "non-existent" health benefit and "cannot be taken seriously as a measure to improve women's health." The law required doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the site of the abortion.