{"id":36350,"date":"2020-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-law\/"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:10:06","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-law\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Law required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, June 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A Louisiana abortion law that could have left the state without an abortion clinic was struck down Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The law was enacted in 2014 and required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voting with the court&#8217;s four-member liberal wing. Roberts said respect for precedent compelled him to vote with the majority.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first abortion case to be heard by the court since it shifted to the right with two of President Trump&#8217;s appointments, <i>The Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/29\/us\/supreme-court-abortion-louisiana.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-36350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}