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Another Assault on Women's Rights Goes Before The Court


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Because Republicans really care about life. Ya right. 

 

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/503645-all-eyes-on-roberts-ahead-of-supreme-courts-abortion-ruling

 

The Louisiana case stems from a constitutional challenge to a law passed in 2014 by the state's Republican-led legislature that required physicians who perform abortions to hold “active admitting privileges” at a hospital within 30 miles of their facility.

In practice, this meant abortion-performing physicians had to be members of the nearby hospital’s medical staff, have the authority to admit patients there and be able to perform relevant diagnoses and surgery.

A federal district court ruled that Louisiana’s admitting-privilege law was unconstitutional, saying it would “cripple women’s ability to have an abortion in Louisiana.” The court found the law provided “no significant health benefits,” while saddling doctors with burdensome requirements that would force the closure of two of the three abortion clinics in the state. 

Applying the Supreme Court’s guidance in Hellerstedt, the district court said the law placed an undue burden on the roughly 10,000 women who seek abortions in Louisiana each year.

But the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that ruling. The appeals court said that under Hellerstedt’s benefits-versus-burdens test, the Louisiana law “does not impose a substantial burden on a large fraction of women,” prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.

During oral arguments in March, Roberts offered no clear signal about whether the Louisiana regulation might face the same fate as the virtually identical Texas law the court struck down four years ago.

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2 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

It's the Left's way of keeping POC down in numbers. Call it the  Margaret Sanger way. 

Pretty hypocritical to call yourself defenders of the poor and cheer killing the babies of these same poor people. 

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Just now, westside2 said:

Pretty hypocritical to call yourself defenders of the poor and cheer killing the babies of these same poor people. 

What? Middle and upper class people don't get abortions? 

 

Ya right. So programmed you are. 

 

 

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5 hours ago, billsfan1959 said:

 

Of course they do. However, women near or below the federal poverty level account for the majority of abortions.

Yes, and why is that? 

5 hours ago, Jaraxxus said:

"assault on women's rights to murder their own children."

 

Fixed that title for you.

 

You want them charged with murder, so the name of the thread is 100% spot on. Thanks! 

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2 minutes ago, billsfan1959 said:

 

Well according to your general theory of all things America, I'm sure it is the result of centuries of oppressive racism.....

Try again, and think. Why would a poor women get an abortion more than a wealthier women? 

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Just now, Tiberius said:

Try again, and think. Why would a poor women get an abortion more than a wealthier women? 

 

Gee, Tibs, I would love to explain it to you; however, I don't really care to because we both know why. It wasn't the point of my original post, which was that poor women are the ones that get the majority of abortions.

 

Keep up.

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