'Clinics will be forced to close': Abortion rights backers fearful of upcoming Supreme Court ruling

[JonLP24]

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on its first major abortion case since President Donald Trump put in place a conservative majority on the bench.

At the heart of the case is a Louisiana law, Act 620, that requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. If the law is upheld, a district court found that Louisiana would be left with one abortion clinic to serve the nearly 10,000 women who seek abortions in the state annually.

"The clinics are busy and there is a great need for them," said Louisiana state Rep. Mandie Landry, a Democrat. "When you're down to one clinic, there's just only so much capacity they have."

Abortion rights advocates have said the measure is nothing more than a backdoor way to curtail abortion access. Louisiana, however, argued that the law is intended to hold abortion providers accountable and ensure that the provider is competent to perform the procedure.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1226721

[Newest Reality]

1. Bull!

Louisiana, however, argued that the law is intended to hold abortion providers accountable and ensure that the provider is competent to perform the procedure.

That's a ruse. Look at all the other issues that just don't matter to them. Anything to get their way, no matter how obviously disingenuous their attempts.

[Jake Stern]

2. And DEMOCRATIC governor Jon Bel Edwards

Signed this monstrosity.