Despite Strict New PA Law, Most Abortion Clinics Staying Open

06.19.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Just one of twenty-two Pennsylvania abortion clinics will be closing its doors because of a new law that took effect today. The law requires abortion clinics to have the same surgical standards as hospitals because of squalid conditions found in a clinic in Philadelphia two years ago. Of the 22 clinics that had been liscensed under the previous law, one will close, two others will operate under a hospital lisense, and the other nineteen are staying open for business and operating under the new law.