Washington D.C., Feb 3, 2016 / 06:40 am
If abortion clinics fail to meet established safety standards, the solution is not to lower those standards, said Catholic leaders in a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of General Counsel filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Feb. 1 on behalf of the national bishops' conference and the Texas Catholic Conference.
Abortion clinics' "failure to comply with health and safety laws" should not be a reason to strike down the laws, the brief said.
"There is ample evidence in this case that hospital admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center requirements protect women's lives and health. When such requirements are not enforced, abuses detrimental to women's lives and health arise."