Supreme Court will decide whether Louisiana may may close down clinics if doctors do not have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear an abortion case from Louisiana and decide whether the state may close down clinics if their doctors do not have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
But ever since, judges and states have been sharply divided over what that means and which regulations are permissible.Abortion-rights advocates said the Louisiana law, if put into effect, would leave the state with only one doctor who may perform abortions. They alleged most hospitals avoid controversy by refusing to grant admitting privileges to doctors who perform abortions.
To the surprise of abortion-rights lawyers, a conservative appeals court in New Orleans upheld the Louisiana law last year and said it would not put an undue burden on many women. It did so by asserting that doctors probably could obtain admitting privileges if they persisted.
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