The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a 2014 Louisiana law imposing regulations on doctors who perform abortions. The law requires doctors to obtain a formal affiliation with a local hospital in order to perform abortions. The court’s decision will allow two recently closed clinics to reopen–making a total of four clinics in the state, Reuters reported.
The law, signed by Republican then-Governor Bobby Jindal, mandates that physicians who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles in January found the law violated the constitutional right to an abortion established by the Supreme Court in 1973.
This law matches one in Texas and the court’s ruling in Louisiana casts doubts over how the court will rule in the Texas case.
Only one of the eight justices, conservative Clarence Thomas, said he would have denied the application, Reuters reported.
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