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    Beginning Of The End For Roe? Supreme Court Weighs Louisiana Abortion Law

    In a redo of an issue decided just four years ago, a newly constituted Supreme Court once again weighs abortion regulations.
    by Nina Totenberg Mar 04, 2020 5 minutes
    The Hope Medical Group for Women<em><strong> </strong></em>in Shreveport, La., is at the center of the case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

    Abortion rights are on the chopping block Wednesday as the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case nearly identical to one decided just four years ago.

    It's the first major abortion case to come before the court since the 2018 retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, making it the first time the majority of justices hearing an abortion case have anti-abortion-rights judicial records.

    In 2016, the justices struck down a Texas law that required abortion-clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. In that case, Texas argued that admitting privileges, which allow doctors to admit and care for their patients in hospitals, would protect the health and safety of women seeking abortions.

    The justices, however, concluded that rather than protecting women's health, these requirements simply created unconstitutional obstacles to abortion access by making it difficult or impossible to staff abortion clinics.

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