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From KQED. Welcome back to the forum. I'm Michael Krasny. In a five to four vote, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana abortion law,

today effectively saving the right to choose in the state.

The law enacted in 2014 required doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital near the facility where they provide abortions

and approve to be a high bar for doctors to achieve. Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the four-member

liberal wing opposing the votes of both Trump-appointed justices. And in this segment, law professors

Michelle Goodwin and Mary Ziegler join us to discuss the case and explore what this ruling means for the future of abortion laws.

And welcome Michelle Goodwin and welcome Mary Ziegler. Good to have both of you with us.

It's a pleasure to be on with you today. Thanks for having us.

And I should mention that Mary Ziegler is professor of law at Florida State University College of Law.

Her new book is called Abortion and the Law in America,

Roe versus Way to the present. Michelle Goodwin is Chancellor's Professor and Director in the Center

for Biotech and Global Health Policy at UC Irvine School of Law, and her book is Policing the

Womb, Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. Let me begin, if I may, with you, Professor

Ziegler, and I guess the place to begin here is just to sort of analyze the Supreme Court decision. It seems likely that it was probably struck down, that is, Louisiana law was struck down in large part because of the Texas precedent that was set in 2016, a very similar case. But I want to get into the implications of this with you as well.

And I guess the place to begin would be just to talk about what this means in terms of future

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