The Supreme Court ruled in favor of protecting abortion rights in the case June v. Russo Monday.
The court's opinion, led by Justice Stephen Breyer, "found that conditions on admitting privileges common to hospitals throughout the State have made and will continue to make it impossible for abortion providers to obtain conforming privileges for reasons that have nothing to do with the State’s asserted interests in promoting women’s health and safety."
Similarly, Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his concurring opinion that "because complications requiring hospitalization are relatively rare, abortion providers were 'unlikely to have any patients to admit' and thus were 'unable to maintain admitting privileges or obtain those privileges for the future.'"
Roberts had been on the dissenting side of the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt. While the law in contention in the case June v. Gee was nearly identical to the Texas law, Roberts based his decision on court precedent rather than his own opinion of the law.
While he maintained that he still disagrees with the Texas law and the court's 2016 ruling, he wrote Monday that"the question today" is on "whether to adhere to [the 2016 case] in deciding the present case." …..snip~
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Thomas tears it up in his dissent.