The future of abortion rights is on the line in a Louisiana case headed to the justices.
The justices will issue a ruling by the end of June, potentially making abortion a key issue in the upcoming presidential election.
Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights at the National Women’s Law Center, warned that a Louisiana victory would “propel us towards the total demise of the right to abortion in this country.” According to T.J. Tu, a senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, whose attorneys will argue the case before the Supreme Court, it can be difficult for doctors who provide abortions to get admitting privileges because they so rarely need to admit patients.
“It’s a way to close clinics in Louisiana,” said Kathaleen Pittman, an administrator at Hope. “Despite their claims that it is out of concern for the health and welfare of women, we know that cannot be true.”Louisiana began considering its admitting privileges law in 2014, just months after the passage of a similar law in Texas ― HB2 — resulted in the. Louisiana modeled its legislation on the Texas measure, plaintiffs say, knowing that it would have a comparable effect.
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