June Ayers, the owner of Montgomery's Reproductive Health Services, was the first witness in the trial of a lawsuit that she and others filed over the law that requires clinics to use doctors who have approval to admit patients to nearby hospitals in case of complications. Her clinic and clinics in
Planned Parenthood Southeast, Reproductive Health Services and registered nurse June Ayers had argued that the law would force clinic doctors and nurses to stop providing abortions or risk being prosecuted and imprisoned for a Class C felony.