The court ruled against the state’s efforts to curb abortions by limiting the places where they could be performed …
Conservative’s had hoped with Trump’s additions to the court they could mount a effort to overturn the availabity of abortion across the country try…
THAT has not happened….
The ruling was 5-4 with Roberts being the deciding judge again…
This is the second ‘Rights’ case for Americans that the high court has ruled on, and it has voted to confirm those previously the books…Justice Roberts advised that he would NOT vote to curb the effects of the original abortion precedent ruling…
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that could have left the state with a single abortion clinic.
The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voting with the court’s four-member liberal wing but not adopting its reasoning. The chief justice said respect for precedent compelled him to vote with the majority.
The case was the court’s first on abortion since President Trump’s appointments of two justices shifted the court to the right.
The Louisiana law, which was enacted in 2014, requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
The law’s supporters said the law protects the health and safety of women seeking abortions, and that the requirements for obtaining admitting privileges helps ensure the competence of doctors. Opponents disputed that, saying that hospitalizations after abortions are rare, that women would receive medical care at hospitals whether their doctors had admitting privileges or not and that abortion providers are often unable to obtain admitting privileges for reasons unrelated to their competence.
How the court ruled
In June Medical Services v. Russo, the court ruled, 5 to 4, that a Louisiana law violated the Constitution when it required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Question wording: Louisiana passed a law requiring abortion providers to be able to send patients to nearby hospitals, a practice known as “admitting privileges.” This law would mean that all abortion providers in the state except for one would be forced to close. Some people believe that Louisiana’s law violates women’s constitutional rights. Other people believe that the law does not violate women’s constitutional rights. What do you think? | Source: SCOTUSPoll, based on an online YouGov survey of 2,000 U.S. adults conducted April 29 to May 12.
Only two of the five doctors who provide abortions in Louisiana have obtained admitting privileges, one in New Orleans and one in Shreveport. But the Shreveport doctor testified that he could not handle the clinic’s work alone. If the law went into effect, a trial judge concluded, there would be a single doctor in a single clinic, in New Orleans, available to provide abortions in Louisiana…..
Susan Collins bull shit is REALLY is useless….
Ron Brownstein notes that despite assurances from Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that he views abortion rights as “settled law,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted to severely restrict abortion access in Louisiana in the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this morning.
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