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The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would take up its first major abortion-rights case since Brett Kavanaugh cemented the Court’s conservative majority, a move that’s sure to pour gasoline on the already raging fires of the national war over abortion.
The justices will hear oral arguments in a case involving a Louisiana law that would require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics. A Louisiana abortion clinic and two providers sued over the law, arguing that if the regulation were to go into effect, the state would have only one abortion clinic.
The Louisiana case does not directly challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide . But if the Court rules to let the law go into effect, abortion rights activists say it will hack away at Roe’s protections.
Toppling Roe has been a Republican fever dream for decades, and with Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch on the bench, abortion opponents say they’ve never been closer.
Cover image: In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 file photo, anti-abortion activists march outside the U.S. Supreme Court building, during the March for Life in Washington. Activists on both sides of the abortion debate react cautiously to a Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 Supreme Court vote blocking Louisiana from enforcing new abortion regulations, agreeing that the crucial tests of the court's stance are still to come. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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