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Eric Zorn: The Supreme Court has signaled it's ready to spring the TRAP and gut abortion rights

When the litigants in a major abortion case came calling recently, the easiest and most obvious thing for the U.S. Supreme Court to say would have amounted to "get outta here, we just decided this very question three years ago!"

The case is June Medical Services v. Gee, a challenge to a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of their clinics.

Sound familiar? It's identical to a major requirement in a Texas law

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