The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Wednesday in a major abortion case that could lead to the dismantling of Roe v. Wade and its supporting decisions, pro-choice groups say.
The case, June Medical Services v. Gee, involves a Louisiana law that requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. The U.S. Fifth Circuit of Appeals upheld the law in a 2-1 decision.
The fact that the Supreme Court even took the case is controversial – and worrisome for pro-choice groups. The justices overturned a nearly identical law in a 2016 decision and could have reversed the Louisiana law without hearing oral arguments.
But since that 2016 decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy – who supported the Roe decision that legalized abortion nationwide – has been replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Neil Gorsuch has taken the seat formerly held by Antonin Scalia, who opposed Roe but who died four months before the decision was released. The Texas law was upheld 5-3.
Pro-choice groups fear that supporters of the Louisiana law already have the five votes needed to uphold it.
“The Supreme Court could really start to unroll abortion rights,” Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, told USA Today.
The ACLU, which supports legalized abortion, has warned that the Louisiana law “would force most abortion…
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