An hour-long oral argument inside the Supreme Court could go a long way toward reversing abortion rights in the United States.
, who provided the decisive vote in the 2016 Texas case that looked like a landmark at the time. Not so much now.
"The Supreme Court could really start to unroll abortion rights," says Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights think tank. Louisiana, which leads the nation with 89 abortion restrictions passed since 1973, has three clinics left in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport. A federal district court judge determined that the law under challenge, which mandates that abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, could force two out of business.
. Court challenges are pending in many of them, including Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
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