LA: Unsafe abortion facilities can be shut down by state Health Secy

TN needs to do this.....

The Health Secretary of the State of Louisiana now has the sole ability to shut down clinics that provide abortion, according to CNBC:

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana's health secretary now has more discretion to shut down an abortion clinic for safety or health concerns.


Gov. Bobby Jindal signed the bill into law Wednesday that gives the head of the Department of Health and Hospitals the ability to quickly suspend a license if he decides there is an immediate health or safety threat at one of a handful of clinics in the state that provide abortions.

Clinics can appeal the license suspension.

Parks Rep. Fred Mills, sponsor of the new law, has said the change puts the health secretary's authority over outpatient abortion clinics in line with the authority he has over other kinds of health care facilities, like substance abuse and adult day care facilities.

Prior to this piece of legislation, it took a panel of three judges to approve a clinic's license suspension.