{"id":226873,"date":"2020-07-07T18:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=226873"},"modified":"2020-07-07T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:14:08","slug":"june-medical-supreme-court-womens-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/june-medical-supreme-court-womens-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"The June Medical Supreme Court decision was not a win for women\u2019s health care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>)\u00a0In the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling […] in June Medical Services v. Russo<\/em>, abortion-rights groups are hailing the decision as a victory for women\u2019s health care. Anyone familiar with the specifics of the Louisiana law \u2014 and not financially invested in propping up our regime of entirely unfettered legal abortion \u2014 knows this claim is obviously untrue.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise, however, to see groups such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the Center for Reproductive Rights repeating this falsehood, because this is the narrative that prevailed all throughout the debate over the law and the only narrative that could justify opposing such a commonsense, pro-woman policy.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s remember what was at stake in this case. On a bipartisan basis, Louisiana enacted a policy requiring abortion providers to maintain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic, so that women who need emergency follow-up care could obtain it more easily. A similar policy already applies to every other type of ambulatory surgical center in Louisiana; the law aimed to close the loophole that had permitted abortionists to avoid regulation despite being providers of outpatient surgery.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Justice Samuel Alito: Supreme Court\u2019s Louisiana abortion ruling \u2018twists the law\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The law did not in any way infringe on a woman\u2019s right to abortion as courts have outlined it. It didn\u2019t infringe on women\u2019s ability to decide whether or when to get an abortion. It didn\u2019t place a limitation of any kind on abortion procedures in Louisiana. It merely required abortionists, like all other surgical providers in the state, to maintain admitting privileges at a local hospital for the sake of the health and safety of women seeking an abortion.<\/p>\n