{"id":31486,"date":"2019-01-30T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=31486"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:03:09","slug":"does-june-medical-services-v-gee-end-of-abortion-rights-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/does-june-medical-services-v-gee-end-of-abortion-rights-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Does “June Medical Services v. Gee” = End of Abortion Rights? This Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Millhiser, writing at Think Progress, thinks so.<\/p>\n

Lawyers representing a Louisiana abortion clinic and at least two physicians filed an application in the Supreme Court on Monday asking the court to halt a Louisiana law that is identical to a Texas law the justices struck down in 2016.<\/p>\n

The court is almost certain to deny this application in a 5-4 vote \u2014 possibly as soon as tonight. When it does so, it will effectively mark the end of Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n

Yes, the court is very unlikely to hand down an opinion this week which uses the words \u201cRoe v. Wade is overruled.\u201d But these abortion providers filed this application because a federal appeals court openly defied the Supreme Court\u2019s most recent abortion decision. When the court refuses to enforce its own decision, that will send a clear signal to lower court judges throughout the country that they are free to uphold restrictions on abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You better read this here. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Recommended reading: Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History, 2nd Edition (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ian Millhiser, writing at Think Progress, thinks so. Lawyers representing a Louisiana abortion clinic and at least two physicians filed an application in the Supreme Court on Monday asking the court to halt a Louisiana law that is identical to a Texas law the justices struck down in 2016. The court is almost certain to … Continue reading Does “June Medical Services v. Gee” = End of Abortion Rights? This Week?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[5836,5835,558,5837],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Head_of_Kavanaugh.png?fit=566%2C514&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8bQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31488,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486\/revisions\/31488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}