nearby hospital wherever they practice. there's no medical reason for this. abortion is relatively safe low risk procedure that in most cases can be done in a doctors office. complications that require hospitalization are very rare, and even in those very rare cases the doctor who performs the procedure doesn't need admitting privileges to send a patient to the hospital. in a place like wichita or oklahoma city where the doctors do not live in the states where they do abortions, it's impossible for them to get admitting privileges at a local hospital. but that's of course the point. the point is not that doctors should be able to get those privileges. the point of these laws is that doctors won't get them. and so that can be used as an excuse to legally ban that doctor from performing abortions or to shut down the clinics where they would have done so. we've seen this play out. in texas in 203 the republican state government there passed an admitting privileges t.r.a.p. law. as a result half the clinics in that state were forced to shutdown. three years later the supreme court threw out that t.r.a.p. law in texas in a 5-3 decision.