Posted on 06/29/2020 7:41:34 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The measure would have required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of a clinic.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Louisiana's tough restriction on abortion violates the Constitution, a surprising victory for abortion rights advocates from an increasingly conservative court.
The 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the courts liberal justices struck down a law passed by Louisiana's legislature in 2014 that required any doctor offering abortion services to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Its enforcement had been blocked by a protracted legal battle.
Two Louisiana doctors and a medical clinic sued to get the law overturned. They said it would leave only one doctor at a single clinic to provide services for nearly 10,000 women who seek abortions in the state each year.
The challengers said the requirement was identical to a Texas law the Supreme Court overturned in 2016. With the vote of then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court ruled that Texas imposed an obstacle on women seeking access to abortion services without providing any medical benefits.
Kennedy was succeeded by the more conservative Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by President Donald Trump.
The Center for Reproductive Rights said the burdens on access to abortion in Louisiana would have been even more restrictive than those in Texas, where about half of the state's abortion clinics were forced to close. It also said the law was unnecessary, because only a small fraction of women experience medical problems after an abortion, and when they do, they seek treatment at a hospital near where they live, not one near the medical clinic.
Louisiana defended the law, arguing that the requirement to have an association with a nearby hospital would provide a check on a doctor's credentials.
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Roberts is being blackmailed.
Roberts is a progressive corportist. No blackmail necessary.
Roberts is a progressive corportist. Corporations support the progressive agenda on social issues. No blackmail necessary.
“The Center for Reproductive Rights said the burdens on access to abortion in Louisiana would have been even more restrictive than those in Texas, where about half of the state’s abortion clinics were forced to close. It also said the law was unnecessary, because only a small fraction of women experience medical problems after an abortion, and when they do, they seek treatment at a hospital near where they live, not one near the medical clinic. “
The latter part of that statement is B.S. If there is a problem with an abortion that cannot be attended to in the abortion mill, then it is also usually a time sensitive problem and the woman needs to go as soon as possible to the nearest hospital; and since she is at the abortion mill at the time, that would be a hospital nearest the mill, not her home.
And in general, yes an abortion doctor needs admitting rights at a hospital, and due to the time sensitive nature of any problem that would require any patient of that doctor to go to a hospital, the 30 mile limit is not too much to ask, not too great a burden.
The fact is that too many abortion mill doctors do not have admitting privileges at the nearest hospital, giving their patients no advantage should they need to go to a hospital due to a problem with the abortion that the abortion doctor cannot solve by themselves in the abortion mill.
Can we arrest GWBush on the charge of negligence of official duties, for hiring Roberts?
Byron White, apptd by JFK.
“Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence.”
The original Roe v Wade decision which gave us legalized baby murder was written by Nixon appointee Harry Blackmun and Nixon appointee Chief Justice Warren Burger voted in favor.
Strangely, Barack Obama had a lot of turncoat rulings. 41 times the Supreme Court issued UNANIMOUS rulings against Obama, 9-0 which means both of his appointees, Sotomayor and Kagan voted against him and with the conservatives at least 41 times.
Reagan appointee Sandra Day O’Connor helped give us affirmative action and Eisenhower appointee Earl Warren became one of the most liberal Chief Justices, particularly on blacks’ civil rights versus states’ rights.
He is willingly doing satan’s bidding. Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. I guess this verse defines Roberts.
Only the House can draft impeachment proceedings.
Gorsuch’s breathtaking legislation-from-the-bench calls into question all of the Federalist Society-approved judges McConnell has gotten confirmed in such a frenzy over the last 3 and a half years - how many of them agreed with Gorsuch’s ruling?
Exactly. It’s always been a fools errand to count GOP judge chickens. The only reason these “Trump judges” are touted so much is because the GOP Congress has delivered basically none of the GOP platform agenda to President Trump’s desk.
That’s hard to do with Speaker Pelosi and a 233-198 Democrat majority in the House.
“George W. Bush was THE WORST president until Obama and even then ties with Obama. Roberts demonstrates that.”
Well to be fair he did give us Alito, but Roberts has been a major flop.
The bottom line is that parents are not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers versus 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty.
The Bush family has been a scourge on this country for going on three decades now.
“So this is why Louisiana copied the Texas law, and now Roberts flips his own vote.”
Roberts could afford to hide the last time. This time, he had to come out in the open. Am I wrong to wish he has a heart attack?
Hasn't he already done that on numerous times?
I’m talking about his SCANDAL!
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