U.S. Supreme Court denies Wisconsin's appeal on abortion clinic restrictions
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U.S. Supreme Court denies Wisconsin's appeal on abortion clinic restrictions
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Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Monday.
Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Monday. Credit: Getty Images
Updated: 1:23 p.m.
By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
Handing down its second major abortion action in as many days, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to rescue a Wisconsin law restricting abortion clinics and doctors in the state, leaving in place lower court rulings that had struck it down.
The unsigned order ends a three-year legal fight and was accompanied Tuesday by another rejection of an appeal by Mississippi that sought to reinstate a similar law requiring abortion doctors to admit patients to nearby hospitals. The decision also follows a lengthy ruling Monday striking down similar restrictions on abortion providers in Texas — a decision considered the high court's most significant ruling on the procedure in a generation.
The court, which has been one justice short since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, ruled 5-3 that the Texas law's restrictions go beyond the type permitted under the court's 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Wisconsin passed similar though less extensive limits on abortion in 2013 only to see them struck down by a trial court in Madison and by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
"Today's decision should send a loud signal to anti-abortion politicians that they can no longer hide behind sham rationales to shut down clinics and prevent a woman who has decided to end a pregnancy from getting the care she needs," said Larry Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, which represented an abortion clinic in the Wisconsin case.
University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias said it would have been nearly impossible for Wisconsin to win its appeal of the 7th Circuit decision in light of Monday's decision. For that to happen, two Supreme Court justices would have had to change the positions taken in the Texas case — an unlikely scenario..............
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