Supreme Court Overturns Restrictions On Abortion Access

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🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four liberals, citing the Supreme Court's adherence to precedent, to invalidate a Louisiana law that required doctors at clinics that perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Evan and Eric and we're in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
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0:32.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:35.4	I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.
0:37.2	I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice correspondent.
0:39.8	And we have Sarah McCammon here with us.
0:41.5	Hi, Sarah.
0:42.2	Hey there.
0:43.0	We brought you in today because this morning the Supreme Court overturned abortion access restrictions in Louisiana.
0:49.2	Sarah, this is something you cover really closely.
0:51.6	Can you give us an idea of what the law said and why this was before the court?
0:56.2	Yeah, so it required doctors who perform abortions in Louisiana to have what are known as hospital admitting privileges,
1:02.3	which is kind of what it sounds like.
1:03.5	It means these are physicians who are allowed to admit patients to a hospital.
1:07.4	Doctors who perform abortions just don't do the volume to admit patients very often.
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