Breaking: Supreme Court strikes down restrictive Louisiana abortion law that would have closed clinics. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberal justices in the ruling.
Instead, Roberts said the Louisiana law could not stand given the court’s 2016 decision to to overturn a similar Texas law in 2016.requires us, absent special circumstances, to treat like cases alike,” Roberts wrote in concurring with the decision. “The Louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed by the Texas law, for the same reasons. Therefore Louisiana’s law cannot stand under our precedents.
Trump’s nominees, Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, dissented from Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s majority decision. Each of the court’s four most consttent conservatives wrote separately to describe their disagreement.“Today a majority of the court perpetuates its ill-founded abortion jurisprudence by enjoining a perfectly legitimate state law and doing so without jurisdiction,” wrote Justice Clarence Thomas.
Hospitalization after an abortion is rare, all sides agree, and the lack of admitting privileges by the doctor who performed the procedure is not a bar to the woman getting needed medical care.
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