Posted on 03/03/2020 6:41:57 PM PST by marshmallow
Next week—for the first time since Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined the bench—the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving abortion. On the docket is June Medical Services v. Russo, a constitutional challenge to a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion takes place.
Life Legal submitted amicus briefs in support of the pro-life law, and we’ll be there on March 4 to watch the Supreme Court argument in this critical case.
You can read the brief we filed on behalf of Abby Johnson here and the brief we filed on behalf of Operation Rescue here.
In 2014, concerned by reports of dangerous practices and conditions in its abortion facilities, Louisiana passed the “Unsafe Abortion Protection Act.” The law was immediately challenged by three abortion clinics and two abortion doctors who argued that the law imposed an unconstitutional burden on women seeking abortions. The federal district court imposed a temporary restraining order followed by a preliminary and then a permanent injunction, preventing the law from taking effect.
The Fifth Circuit reversed and found the law constitutional. The Court distinguished both the law’s history and its practical effects from that of a similar admitting privileges law from Texas, which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 2016. In that case, Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a 5-3 majority, including now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, found the Texas law would lead to the closure of most abortion clinics in Texas while providing no benefits to the health or safety of women.
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send it back to Louisiana,
not a Federal power
Too bad I really didn’t want this SC to take up any pro life case. we need to flip at least 1 rat Justice. As it stands the court will probably side with the baby killers and it will be years before it can be undone if ever.
Wee can pray to God for a miracle before then.
Not for anything bad to befall someone.
Just a miracle.
While we pray the pro life side prevails, I fear you are correct. At best, the court is 4-2 liberal lean with Roberts a swing vote and Gorsuch and Kavanaugh unknown.
The mere fact that the abortionists fought this law demonstrates that they have no regard whatsoever for human life or health. And why would they? They sell death.
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