Even Louisiana acknowledges that the requirement is virtually identical to a Texas law that the Supreme Court voted 5 to 3 to strike down in 2016. “I am unconvinced that any justice of the Supreme Court who decided Whole Woman’s Health would endorse our opinion,” Judge Stephen A. Higginson wrote in his dissent. The law is scheduled to go into effect Feb. 4 unless the Supreme Court intervenes. But it was decided by a very different Supreme Court, in the wake of the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Those opposed to abortion, on the other hand, would be disappointed by a Supreme Court reinforced with conservatives stepping in to stop a law that an appeals court has approved.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2019 22:47 UTC