Even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments Wednesday in its most significant abortion case in nearly nine years, a reminder of battles still being fought in the states arrived last week at the high court from, once again, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
A three-judge panel on Feb. 24 granted an emergency stay of a federal district court order in January blocking Louisiana’s requirement that abortion clinic physicians have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics. The requirement is identical to one of two requirements that the high court will hear in the challenge from Texas: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
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