Divided Supreme Court hears challenge to Louisiana abortion law.
Kavanaugh seemed interested in the same issue, asking,"Are you saying an admitting privileges requirement is always unconstitutional, so you don't have to look at the facts in each case?"
She said the burdens on access to abortion in Louisiana would be worse than those under the Texas law, which forced about half that state's abortion clinics to close. She also said the law was unnecessary, because only a small fraction of women experience medical problems after an abortion and seek treatment at a hospital near where they live, not one near the medical clinic.
She also said some qualified doctors who couldn't get hospital admitting privileges just didn't try hard enough. Justice Stephen Breyer said such a position would require overturning eight prior abortion rights decisions stemming from lawsuits filed by doctors on behalf of their patients.
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