The Constitutional Rights of Abortionists

The Constitutional Rights of Abortionists
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In June Medical Services v. Russo (formerly Gee), the Supreme Court on March 4 will hear oral arguments from abortionists both about the constitutional abortion rights of women and about their own standing to sue as provided by the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions. The case is the latest episode in the unceasing and relentless division of the country owing to the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions that have removed this subject from the legislative deliberation of the states.

June Medical involves a statute enacted in 2014 by the state of Louisiana compelling abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital for the purpose of treating women who have complications or emergencies as a result of their abortions. As such, it does nothing more than impose a credentialing requirement similar to that required for physicians in other fields of medicine. Upon passage, the Louisiana federal district court enjoined the statute’s enforcement. In addition to the question of whether such a requirement violates a woman’s constitutional right to abortion, the case involves issues of what, when, and how “facts” are established in the course of a case’s progress through the different levels of the courts and whether abortionists have a right to assert the supposed constitutional protection of abortion.

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