“Everything is up for grabs.”
Abortion rights protesters rally outside the Supreme Court on March 4. Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
The Louisiana law, Act 620, which was blocked by a federal district court, mandates that abortion providers have admitting privileges at a hospital that is within 30 miles of their office or clinic. This type of law, a targeted regulation of abortion providers law, is “expressly crafted to impose unnecessary regulations on clinics and physicians providing abortion care in an effort to curtail or cease their ability to operate,” states, a report from theCenter for American Progress .
Gorsuch and Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly said nothing during the hour-long proceedings. Advocates were watching Chief Justice John Roberts, who could be the deciding vote in this case. In, he voted in favor of upholding the Texas TRAP law, but he is seen as an institutionalist and therefore could rule against Act 620 because it violates a previous Supreme Court decision.
Even though 620 only briefly went into effect, the damage was done, with one of the remaining clinics in Louisiana closed for good, leaving only three clinics in the whole state, said Steffani Bangel, executive director of the New Orleans Abortion Fund. They get calls weekly from people who want to terminate their pregnancies and mistakenly believe that restrictions are already in place. “There is a lot of misinformation about access to abortion care in Louisiana,” said Bangel.
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