A Republican state lawmaker in Alabama has introduced a bill that supporters say was designed to shut down the only clinic in Huntsville that performs abortions, AL.com reported.

State Rep. Ed Henry’s measure, House Bill 527, would prevent state health officials from issuing or renewing licenses to any clinics operating within 2,000 feet of a school. The statute would directly affect the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives Services, which is currently located across the street from the former site of a local middle school.

The former head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, James Henderson, said his group drafted the legislation after a Madison County judge dismissed the group’s lawsuit last November seeking to block the clinic from operating.

“We were advised by counsel that a good approach was to use the same standard of keeping sex offenders from public schools, which is 2,000 feet,” Henderson said. “That is what the bill is based on.”

Dalton Johnson, the clinic’s administrator, blasted the measure, saying the bill came after the facility spent nearly $550,000 in relocation and remodeling costs to comply with a state law passed in 2013.