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Legal Trends in Bioethics

Federal judge William Traxler struck down a South Carolina law that regulated abortion clinics (Greenville Women’s v. Bryant, U.S. Dist. Ct., Greenville Div., S.C., 6:96 CV 1898, 2/5/99). The law, among other directives, required registered nurses to assist in abortions, mandated air-flow standards, and required specific widths of doorways. State officials claimed that the guidelines were intended to protect the safety of women seeking abortions. Opponents of the law maintained that the regulations and requirements were so strict they limited women’s access to abortions. Judge Traxler ruled that the 1996 abortion clinic regulations were an unconstitutional infringement on women’s rights to an abortion. Lorraine Maguire, director of the Charleston Women’s Medical Clinic, stated, “The court recognized that the state should not interfere in personal, private reproductive health care decisions.”