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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law restricting abortion by a five-to-four

vote, with Chief Justice Roberts citing with the four-judge liberal wing.

The Louisiana law, enacted in 2014, requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

Its supporters say the law protects the health and safety of women seeking abortion,

and that requirements for obtaining admitting privileges help ensure the competence of doctors.

Opponents claim that hospitalizations after abortions are rare,

that women would receive medical care at a hospital, whether their doctor had admitting

privileges or not, and that abortion providers are often unable to obtain admitting privileges

for reasons unrelated to their competence.

The Federal District Court in Baton Rouge struck down the Louisiana law in 2017.

Its judge, John W. de Gravel, said it created an undue burden on women's constitutional right to abortion.

He stated that, in the last 23 years, Hope Clinic,

an abortion clinic in Shreveport, which serves in excess of 3,000 patients per year, had only four patients who required transfer to a hospital for treatment. In each instance, regardless of whether

the physician had admitting privileges, the patient

received appropriate care. He added that only one in six doctors who perform abortions

in Louisiana had admitting privileges when the law passed. The remaining five faced obstacles

to obtaining them for reasons unrelated to their competence.

He found that implementing the law would force two of the state's three abortion clinics to close.

The judge also stated that the law was essentially identical to Whole Women's Health versus Hellerstadt,

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