I recently experienced acute déjà vu when writing our amicus brief in the Supreme Court case June Medical Services v. Russo, which deals with a challenge to a 2014 Louisiana restriction on abortion.
That’s probably because the Supreme Court heard a case about an identical state abortion restriction just four years ago. In Whole Woman’s Health v.
Hellerstedt, the Court found that a Texas law requiring that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges did virtually nothing to protect patient health and did a whole lot to eliminate access to abortion.
That’s because few hospitals – especially in Texas and Louisiana, where these cases have arisen – will grant admitting privileges to abortion providers.