BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The clinic once bombed by terrorist Eric Rudoph has once again been shut down by the state of Alabama.

A judge this afternoon ordered that abortions can no longer be performed at a clinic on the city's Southside because it does not have a license to do so.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Joseph Boohaker determined that the clinic -- the target of Rudolph's deadly bomb 15 years ago -- did not meet the criteria of a physician's office which the defendants contended allowed it to operate without a license.

"The court hereby declares that the operation of the Birmingham facility located at 1001 17th St. South in Birmingham, Alabama meets the definition of an abortion or reproductive health center," Boohaker said in a 22-page ruling.

"The doctor is terribly disappointed," said attorney Scott Morro representing Dr. Bruce Norman. "He testified openly and explained what was happening at that facility. He is disappointed the judge has inferred that for two months out of a calendar year he does more than 30 abortions. Dr. Norman clearly knows he cannot do that."

State deputy general Brian Hale, representing the Alabama Department of Public Health, said he was pleased.

"The import of the order is Dr. Norman will have to close his clinic," Hale said. "We are pleased with the court's ruling."

The ruling came down to two things: a telephone number and the abortion doctor's math.

Norman testified that he performed 14 or less abortions on one day at the clinic "every other week."

State law says a license is required if you perform 30 or more abortions in any two months of a calendar year.

"For two months of every year, according to Dr. Norman's testimony, the said facility is open three days during the month," Boohaker wrote.

"The court can only conclude that Dr. Norman's reckoning that he performs less than 30 abortion procedures per month is based upon a mistaken belief that bi-weekly is the same as semi-monthly, and for 10 months of the year that reckoning is clearly correct. However, for two months every year this clearly is not the case."

The judge also ruled that a phone number connecting callers to an abortion referral service is a way that the clinic "holds itself out" to the public as an abortion provider, which is another part of the regulation requiring a license.

The state health department sued on March 26 after receiving complaints about the clinic. The lawsuit named as defendants: Norman, Diane Derzis, Patrick Smith, Dipat LLC, and All Women's Inc. The lawsuit lists Derzis as president of All Women's Inc. and as a partner in Dipat LLC, which owns the property.

It was the second time in a year the state had moved to shut the clinic down.

Last year Derzis surrendered a license to perform abortions at the clinic in a consent decree after revocation hearings began. The revocation hearings followed an investigation into problems which included two cases where patients were given an overdose of a drug and had to go to the hospital.

Earlier today abortion opponents assembled outside the state health department in Montgomery to highlight a medical incident that occurred Wednesday at an abortion facility in Jackson, Miss., where Norman also performs abortions.

As documented in video and photos, an ambulance was called to Jackson Women's Health Clinic to transport a patient to the hospital. They used the incident to call on the judge to shut down the Birmingham clinic in the then-pending ruling.

Historically, the Birmingham clinic is known as one of the targets of terrorist Eric Rudolph who is serving life sentences for a series of bombings, including one in 1998 at New Woman All Women that killed an off-duty police officer serving as a security guard and seriously injured a nurse.

Rudolph was captured 10 years ago after spending five years hiding in the Appalachian Mountains.