South Guilford News

A right-to-life advocacy group in North Carolina shared its parent organization's disappointment with a 5-4 vote by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 striking down Louisiana’s “Unsafe Abortion Act.”

The 2014 Lousiana act mandated that doctors performing an abortion must have admitting privileges at a hospital that is within 30 miles of a health clinic that performed the abortion.

"We are extremely disappointed," Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said in a news release that was published on the North Carolina Right to Life website about the Supreme Court decision of Medical, L.L.C. v. Russo. "The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Louisiana’s law leaves women vulnerable.”

The North Carolina Right to Life is part of the national organization. 

A local physician who is also the North Carolina division president was also critical of the Supreme Court's ruling. 

“Part of the responsibilities of a surgeon includes handling the complications that may arise from the procedures that are performed,” North Carolina Right to Life President Bill Pincus said in a statement in the website post. “This is just common sense related to good healthcare practices.”

Pincus said he was required to have privileges at a local hospital. 

“This was necessary because if complications occurred, I would be able to admit the patient and treat those complications,” he said. “Part of the responsibilities of a surgeon includes handling the complications that may arise from the procedures that are performed.”