Why abortion clinics in the U.S. are rapidly closing

The United States' wave of abortion clinic closures continued Wednesday in Louisiana, where an appeals court issued an emergency order that abortion-rights groups say will shutter three of the state’s four providers.

An appeals court in New Orleans ruled that a 2014 state law requiring doctors who perform the procedures to have formal relationships with nearby hospitals can take effect as a legal challenge against it winds through the courts. A lower court in January had temporarily halted the rule.