Welcome to the news hour. There was major news out of the Supreme Court today as a decision

came down in a highly anticipated reproductive rights case where the justices

protected access to widely used abortion pills.

In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that a group of anti-abortion doctors does not

have any legal basis to challenge access to Mifapristone.

That's one of the two common drugs used in medication abortion.

As a result, access to Mifapristone will not change.

Let's bring in our John Yea.

John, it's great to have you here, so this ruling did not address the underlying issues that the plaintiffs raised,

instead deciding the case only on standing, that this decision was unanimous. Was that surprising?

Not entirely. The oral arguments back in March really focused on this question of standing.

Did the doctors have the legal right to sue?

And in his opinion, the unanimous opinion today, Justice Kavanaugh essentially said, no no they don't have a direct

personal stake in this because they're anti-abortion doctors because they are

morally opposed to abortion. They don't prescribe if a person owned. They don't perform abortion procedures.

So what they were challenging was the regulation of other doctors who did and you can't do that in our system.

There's another big abortion related case that we're waiting on that

has to do with abortion law in Idaho. Does this ruling in any way give an

indication of what might be to come out of the Idaho case? I don't think so,

not really because it's a totally different question.

The question in Idaho is whether they're essentially total ban on abortion.

The only exception is to save the life of the mother,

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