The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 in a major abortion rights case that it is unconstitutional for states to require abortion providers to have admitting rights to hospitals in order to engage in abortion services.
The case is known as June Medical. It specifically overturns a Louisiana law.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice, under President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to uphold the Louisiana law, whoch it did not.
Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote giving the court’s liberal justices the majority. Notable is each of the justices dissenting wrote separate dissents.
He argues that to uphold the Court’s rule of stare decisis, he had to agree with the liberal jurists and abortion rights activists.
“The legal doctrine of stare decisis requires us, absent special circumstances, to treat like cases alike. The Louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed by the Texas law, for the same reasons. Therefore Louisiana’s law cannot stand under our precedents.”
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