The Supreme Court already has one high-profile abortion case on its docket this term. It is almost identical to a Texas law the court struck down in 2016 as medically unnecessary and meant to limit a woman’s access to the procedure. The Kentucky clinic pointed out that a different appeals court had struck down a North Carolina law that was materially identical to the Kentucky law. But the 6th Circuit said that was before a 2018 decision by the Supreme Court involving pregnancy crisis centers in California. “By refusing to review the Sixth Circuit’s ruling, the Supreme Court has rubber-stamped extreme political interference in the doctor-patient relationship,” senior staff attorney Alexa Kolbi-Molinas said in a statement.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2019 16:54 UTC