Supreme Court justices voiced clashing views about abortion restrictions in Louisiana in a case that could send signals about whether a more conservative high court will begin to narrow precedent
WASHINGTON— on abortion rights.
During an hourlong oral argument Wednesday, the court considered a Louisiana law enacted in 2014 that requires doctors performing abortions to hold admitting privileges at a hospital no more than 30 miles away.
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