The Obama administration has called on the US Supreme to strike down a recently passed Texas abortion law which the administration argues will harm women’s health. According to US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli , the law would continue to close many of the state’s clinics. Verrilli further stated that the challenged requirements “do not produce actual health benefits,” and that they “indeed, would harm,” rather than protect, women’s health. The administration argues that the requirements are more restrictive than those previously upheld by the court. The new regulations require that any facility providing abortions meet the standard of ambulatory care centers, and that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at hospitals no more than 48 kilometers from the clinics at which they practice.