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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 04:18 PM Oct 2019

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear First Abortion Case With Kavanaugh

Source: Bloomberg News

6h ago
Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear its first abortion case with a new conservative majority, agreeing to rule on a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform the procedure to get admitting privileges at a local hospital.

The law is similar to a Texas measure the court struck down in 2016, before Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced the now retired-Justice Anthony Kennedy. The court’s new composition means it could overturn the 2016 ruling, or at least limit its impact to the particular circumstances of Texas.

The case promises to provide the clearest picture yet of whether Chief Justice John Roberts and the reconstituted court will move quickly to roll back abortion rights. The court is likely to rule in 2019, months before the presidential election.

Opponents say the law would leave Louisiana with only one clinic, in New Orleans, and just one abortion doctor to serve the roughly 10,000 women who seek to end a pregnancy every year in the state. A divided federal appeals court rejected those claims and upheld the law.


Read more: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-first-abortion-case-with-kavanaugh-1.1326597

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear First Abortion Case With Kavanaugh (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2019 OP
The SC could have let the decision stand. mountain grammy Oct 2019 #1
This could be upheld and the prior decision can still stand. Igel Oct 2019 #3
If they really wanted to cut abortion rates down... Maraya1969 Oct 2019 #2
Alert Susan Collins to put on her "deeply concerned" face maxrandb Oct 2019 #4

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
1. The SC could have let the decision stand.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 05:11 PM
Oct 2019

So maybe we’ll get lucky and one of the raging misogynists will overturn this bad ruling but I doubt it nothing gets their juices flowing like sticking it to women..

Bad days ahead.white men gonna stay in charge..whatever it takes..

Igel

(35,197 posts)
3. This could be upheld and the prior decision can still stand.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 07:33 PM
Oct 2019

There are differences between the two cases and the order could be narrowly tailored to affect one situation and not the other.

Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
2. If they really wanted to cut abortion rates down...
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 05:40 PM
Oct 2019

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/access-to-free-birth-control-reduces-abortion-rates/

Unplanned pregnancies are a significant problem in the United States. According to a 2012 Brookings Institution report, more than 90 percent of abortions occur due to unintended pregnancy.

Each year, about 50 percent of all pregnancies that occur in the US are not planned, a number far higher than is reported in other developed countries. About half of these pregnancies result from women not using contraception and the other half from incorrect or irregular use.

A new study by investigators at Washington University reports that providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduces unplanned pregnancies and cuts abortion rates by a range of 62 to 78 percent compared to the national rate.

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It's only logical.

maxrandb

(15,191 posts)
4. Alert Susan Collins to put on her "deeply concerned" face
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 09:18 AM
Oct 2019

I think she carries it in a suitcase.

Apologies to Warren Zevon.

"and your face looked like something death brought with him in his suitcase". - from The French Inhaler

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