The Supreme Court declined to take up a case involving an Arkansas law that challengers say could end the use of medication abortions in the state. The law requires doctors who provide medication abortions to have a contract with a specialist who has hospital admitting privileges. Abortion providers say the requirement is burdensome and unnecessary; complications are extremely rare from the two-pill regimen that is used in the first nine weeks of pregnancy, and any complications can be handled by a local emergency room or hospital. The state has three abortion clinics, and two of those offer only medication abortions. The law could leave one clinic, in Little Rock, to serve the entire state — and it would have to offer only surgical abortions. | 
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