Those interested in the future of abortion rights would be wise to look beyond the sweeping heartbeat bans and personhood laws that dominate the headlines and consider the case of June Medical.
is still on the agenda. After all, a major brief submitted by Republican members of Congress asks the court to dismantleAbortion foes are not likely to get their wish this time, but that doesn't mean nothing major is at stake.will tell us a lot about how seriously the court takes its own precedents—and whether it believes abortion hurts women.
The case involves a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of a clinic. Louisiana claims the law protects women by ensuring continuity of care for patients with complications. Supporters of abortion rights insist that the law itself hurts women by denying them access to reproductive health care. They warn thatThe problem is that the court has seen this law before—and recently.
But President Donald Trump picked Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy, and now the law is back. There is a real possibility that the court will uphold it. The justices could conclude that Louisiana is just different from Texas. Kavanaugh took this approach last year in dissenting from a decision preventing the Louisiana law from going intocouldn't prove that they would have the same problems that the court predicted in Texas. The court's conservative majority may now agree.
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