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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Ryan was only the speaker. What did he fail to deliver on?
Only the Speaker, are you serious? The Speaker is the closest thing to a king we have in our politics. Nothing happens in our system unless the Speaker wants it too. And most things he wants are done. He can'r overrule the President but he can sure bind him up and he did exactly that to Trump. Did he allow the wall to go forward, immigration reform, ObamaCare?
Obamacare minimally went forward.....without Trump’s promised replacement portion of it. The wall was Senate Democrats, who Trump said he could work with. But failed to.
The wall was stopped dead by Ryan the first two years when they had all three branches, so don't try and pass it off on the Dems. In fact Ryan announced he would not run for reelection and stayed in power all through his lame duck last term. It was all Ryan and you know it, he did nothing to hold the House and one might be convinced he in fact did it deliberately.
Do you know where he is now?
Ryan was speaker of the house and had little influence in the Senate, expecially with democrats. It was Trump, through his posturing as the great negotiator who said he could work with democrats to get deals done.
He can negotiate with sane humans the democratic leadership doesn't meet that requirement. You can paint any picture you want or are paid to do, trying to defend Ryan but it won't wash here, at least not with me.
Ryan deliberately withheld anything that remotely made Trump look good and the Congress flipped while he fiddled. Have you noted the decidedly anti Trump FOX has taken lately? About the same time Ryan moved there, not that the Murdock runts wouldn't have done that anyway but Ryan is not resisting them like he did Trump.
Two things. Ryan was no fan of Trump, but Trump basically steamrolled him. And Trump promised he could negotiate with anyone, sane or not to get a deal.
Do you realize how insane that position is?
Yes, it is insane. But he is the one who said it.
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