06-30-2016, 07:56 PM
Well, this is one case that was definitively decided, despite an only 8-person Supreme Court. I agree with the majority ruling against shutting down clinics.
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, was decided in a 5-3 vote, with Justice Anthony Kennedy siding with the court’s more liberal justices. The Texas law being challenged in the case would have closed most of the abortion clinics in the state. By ruling the Texas law unconstitutional, the fives justices delivered a victory to the abortion rights movement.
The 5-3 ruling is the most significant decision from the Supreme Court on abortion in two decades and could serve to deter other states from passing so-called "clinic shutdown" laws.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion, which was joined in full by Kennedy. Breyer wrote that despite arguments that the restrictions were designed to protect women's health, the reality is that they merely amounted to burdening women who seek abortions.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/27/politics/s...index.html
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, was decided in a 5-3 vote, with Justice Anthony Kennedy siding with the court’s more liberal justices. The Texas law being challenged in the case would have closed most of the abortion clinics in the state. By ruling the Texas law unconstitutional, the fives justices delivered a victory to the abortion rights movement.
The 5-3 ruling is the most significant decision from the Supreme Court on abortion in two decades and could serve to deter other states from passing so-called "clinic shutdown" laws.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion, which was joined in full by Kennedy. Breyer wrote that despite arguments that the restrictions were designed to protect women's health, the reality is that they merely amounted to burdening women who seek abortions.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/27/politics/s...index.html