Story highlights Law says doctors can't perform abortions without admitting privileges in nearby hospitals 
 
 Planned Parenthood files suit 
 
 The judge sides with the group 
 
 The restraining order will stay in place until another hearing next week 
 
 A Wisconsin federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order preventing the state from enforcing a new and restrictive abortion law. In a 19-page opinion issued Monday evening, U.S. District Judge William M. Conley cited a "troubling lack of justification" for the law and said he would stay enforcement of the admissions provision until July 18, a day after a more deliberate courtroom hearing scheduled before him next week. "Since the state has failed to date to demonstrate any benefit to maternal health of imposing this restriction, there is no meaningful counterweight recognized by the United States Supreme Court to justify the act's immediate enforcement." Scott Walker privately signed the law, which went into effect Monday. To that end, "the record to date strongly supports a finding that no medical purpose is served by this requirement," he said. Backers of the law, which also requires women seeking abortions to get ultrasounds, have said the measure could benefit both fetuses and pregnant women and the law will ultimately be upheld by the courts. The clinics asked the court to immediately block the law, contending it violates the constitution's due process guarantee, puts an undue burden on a woman's right to choose abortion and unconstitutionally treats doctors who perform abortions differently than doctors who perform other procedures. Pines said getting admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles would be impossible in some cases because some hospitals require physicians to admit a certain numbers of patients annually, and abortion doctors rarely have reason to admit patients to hospitals.
– On Friday, Gov. Scott Walker signed into law a bill requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within a half-hour of their practices. Now a federal judge has temporarily halted the measure, citing "a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting-privileges requirement." The US Supreme Court says measures like this one must be "reasonably directed to the preservation of maternal health"—and "it appears that no medical purpose is served by this requirement," Judge William Conley wrote, per CNN. His move, following a Planned Parenthood suit, bars the measure until July 18, a day after another hearing on the measure, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes. Another part of the law, requiring pre-abortion ultrasounds, is untouched by Conley's move. It was thought that the admitting-privileges portion of the law would halve the number of abortion clinics in the state, leaving just two.