Less than one day after invalidating Texas’ admitting-privileges requirement for abortion clinic physicians, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear efforts by Mississippi and Wisconsin to revive identical clinic requirements and, in separate action, declined to take up a new birth control challenge.

In Stormans v, Wiesman, the birth control case, the high court, with three justices dissenting, turned away a challenge to Washington state regulations that prohibit pharmacists from refusing to fill emergency contraceptives because of religious objections.

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