Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris. Chief Justice John Roberts' assertion of precedent in striking down a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges has everyone pro-life and pro-abortion scratching their heads.

Today on the Breakpoint podcast, John Stone Street welcomes the Heritage Foundation's Dr. Charmaine

Yost to break down why Roberts ruled the way he did, what it means for the states that want to regulate abortion, and what it means for the future of the court itself.

Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. Another week, another week of Supreme Court decisions starting on Monday with a very important decision. In our view, we had a breakpoint on it that came out on Tuesday. We'll link to it if you come to breakpoint.org. A decision in a case in Louisiana called June Medical Services versus Russo. It had to do with whether

the Supreme Court would allow any sort of restrictions there in Louisiana. And the decision came back,

surprisingly 5-4, with the Chief Justice siding with the liberal side of the court, shall we say,

again, as he's been apt to do. And I wanted to talk about

this decision and how significant it is. In our view, it's quite significant. Not everyone

shares that view, but I think it is. And so I'm just really pleased to have Dr. Charmaine-Jose,

who's the vice president of the Heritage Foundation. She leads the Institute for Family Community

and Opportunity there, includes work on domestic policy issues, health care, welfare reform, education

policy, family formation, women's issues, and religious liberty. So she is exactly the right

person to talk to about this case. Charmaine, it's great to have you on the program. You've been a long-time friend

of the Colson Centers and really appreciate your work. So some people are looking at this

decision saying it's not that big a deal. The Texas law, upon which the Louisiana law was very

similar, was already struck down. It was, you know, no surprise here.

I think it's a big deal. So what say you? No pressure. What say you?

No pressure. Hey, John, it is really good to be with you, although we needed to have come up with a better

reason to get together. Exactly. Exactly. It's like all of us get together when something bad

happens. And the Supreme Court's been a doo get together when something bad happens, and the Supreme

Court's been a doozy already this term. Well, it really has been. And, you know, there's no sugarcoding,

the fact that we're really, really disappointed in how the Chief Justice ruled in this case.

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