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Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights
Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights For the first time since President Trump’s new appointees took their seats, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pro-abortion decision on Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts, placing precedent over all else, joined the court's four minority liberals in striking down a Louisiana law that would have required doctors at abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges. The Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which never went into effect, required abortion doctors in the state to have admitting the privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinics where they worked. The law was simi…

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by Jerry DeMarco