The Supreme Court has announced it will take up an abortion case, which could be decided in the middle of the 2020 election campaign.
It will be the first case involving abortion since Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were confirmed to the court.
The New York Times reports:
“The case concerns a Louisiana law that its opponents say would leave the state with only one doctor in a single clinic authorized to provide abortions. And it is very likely to yield an unusually telling decision because, in 2016, the court struck down an essentially identical Texas law.“
The Louisiana law requires doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The Times reports a federal judge struck down the law in 2017 “saying that such doctors were often unable to obtain admitting privileges for reasons unrelated to their competence and that the law created an undue burden on women’s constitutional right to abortion.“
Opponents say the law will leave Louisiana with only one doctor in one clinic authorized to provide abortions.