Supreme Court to Review Louisiana Abortion Regulations, Could Mean the End of Roe

Calvin Freiburger : Oct 4, 2019
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The overturning of Roe v. Wade, which imposed abortion on demand across the U.S. in 1973, would mean states could decide their own abortion laws.

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The US Supreme Court announced Friday it will take up the case of Louisiana's admitting privileges law, which could have the potential of upending the high court's most recent pro-abortion precedent. (Image: via Gospel Herald)

The court announced Friday it has decided to review June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, NPR reports. The case concerns Louisiana's Act 620, which requires abortion centers to make arrangements for admitting women to hospitals within 30 miles in cases of life-threatening complications. The abortion industry's attorneys argue the law is no different from the Texas law the Supreme Court struck down in 2016's Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt; pro-lifers argue that not only was Hellerstedt wrongly decided, but that the Louisiana law is different from the Texas one.

In September, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit (which upheld the law) noted that while the laws may be similar, the Louisiana measure's impact would be different as most Louisiana hospitals didn't have the Texas requirement that doctors must see a minimum number of patients per year to qualify for admitting privileges. In February, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted (in a dissent to a ruling granting a stay of the law) that Act 620 had a 45-day transition period during which "both the doctors and the relevant hospitals" could have acted "expeditiously and in good faith to reach a definitive conclusion about whether those three doctors can obtain admitting privileges."

A ruling is likely to be handed down during the already-contentious 2020 election year, in which abortion and judicial nominations will be major issues for both President Donald Trump and his Democrat opponent... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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