Via – CNBC

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear arguments over the legality of a controversial Louisiana abortion regulation in its term beginning next week, setting the stage for a contentious fight over reproductive rights in the middle of the 2020 presidential election.

The Louisiana law requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortions are provided. Opponents of the law said it would effectively limit the state of 4½ million to one abortion provider.

The battle over the Louisiana law is expected to be the first major test of how the court’s new conservative majority will approach the issue of reproductive rights. It is the first abortion restriction to come before the justices for argument since the departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose successor, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was supported by anti-abortion groups. 

It is the second time in three years that a fight over admitting privileges for abortion has made its way to the justices. In 2016, the court struck down a nearly identical Texas law by a vote of 5-3.

Despite that action, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the Louisiana law was permissible because it would have a different impact in Louisiana than it did in Texas….

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