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Attorney General Luther Strange said his office will drop its appeal in a case on an Alabama abortion law because of today's ruling on a Texas law by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Strange said the Texas law is nearly identical to an Alabama law that required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital in the same city that they perform abortions.

"While I disagree with the high court's decision, there is no good faith argument that Alabama's law remains constitutional in light of the Supreme Court ruling," Strange said in a statement.

"Accordingly, my office will dismiss our appeal of a 2014 federal court ruling declaring Alabama's abortion clinic law unconstitutional."

The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that the Texas law was unconstitutional because it placed an undue burden on women's right to seek an abortion.

Besides the admitting privileges requirement, the law also required abortion clinics to operate with the same standards as surgical centers.

The Supreme Court found that the requirements did not advance their stated purpose of protecting women's health and that they would limit access to abortion by forcing many of the state's clinics to close.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson had ruled Alabama's admitting privileges requirement was unconstitutional in 2014.

Thompson's ruling had put enforcement of the law on hold.

The state had appealed to the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Updated at 5:45 p.m. to say that Thompson's ruling in 2014 had put the Alabama law on hold.