{"id":24665,"date":"2020-06-29T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=6b2045c2a1572fa4e5971be6d5315f09"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:05:23","slug":"supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=24665","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/922594\/supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-restrictions\">The Week: Most Recent Home Page Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Good!\r\nOnce again, Roberts demonstrates he actually believes in the functioning of the legal system, and everyone to the right of him demonstrates they are craven ideologues.<\/div><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.theweek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/tw_image_6_4\/public\/gettyimages-1222815620.jpg?itok=6mu1Jxnf\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/p> <p>A Louisiana abortion law has just been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In a 5-4 decision on Monday, the court struck down a restrictive Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have \"active admitting privileges\" at a hospital within 30 miles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/supreme-court-strikes-down-restrictive-louisiana-abortion-law-n1231392\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News reports<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/869687\/supreme-court-accepted-potentially-landmark-abortion-case\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The law<\/a> was passed in 2014, and the court noted it was similar to a Texas law it previously struck down in 2016. The restrictions under Louisiana's law could have resulted in the state having just one abortion clinic, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/29\/us\/supreme-court-abortion-louisiana.html\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/29\/us\/supreme-court-abortion-louisiana.html\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal majority, saying that although he joined the dissent for the case of the Texas law, \"the Louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed by the Texas law, for the same reasons,\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/supreme-court-louisiana-abortion-law-john-roberts\/2020\/06\/29\/6f42067e-ba00-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">per <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>. \"Therefore Louisiana's law cannot stand under our precedents.\" <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Louisiana abortion law has just been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.<br \/>\nIn a 5-4 decis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=24665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}