The ultra- reactionaries lose another attempt to control women's bodies:
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion right the court first announced in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
In two previous abortion cases, Roberts had favored restrictions.
The Louisiana law is virtually identical to one in Texas that the court struck down in 2016.
“The result in this case is controlled by our decision four years ago invalidating a nearly identical Texas law,” Roberts wrote, although he did not join the opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer for the other liberals.
The attempts to erode Roe will continue, and with the lower courts now packed with 200 more of Moscow Mitch McConnell's troglodyte judges, the outcomes will rest on the ever- unpredictable John Roberts.
But let's savor this victory for now.
2 comments:
I was glad to hear the results of the ruling, but also aware that it is another stay in the Republican's execution of Roe v Wade. If nothing else, the Trump administration has accomplished a goal by stacking the lower courts and the Supreme Court, so nothing is safe in the long run. But I'll take the win and hope that future challenges have the same fate.
donnah -- we're with you.
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