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On Monday,the U.
S. Supreme Court issued its biggest ruling on abortion since 2007 after the justices ruled 5-3 that a 2013 Texas abortion law placed an undue burden on women exercising their constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. The law at the heart of Whole Woman's Health vs. Hellerstedt restricted doctors from performing abortions if they did not have hospital admitting privileges — provision that forced dozens of clinics to shut in the Lone Star State.
Advocates said the strict law was medically unnecessary and designed to build it extremely difficult, and in some cases nearly impossible, or for women in the stateto obtain a secure and legal abortion.
Ian Millhiser,a senior fellow at the middle for American Progress Fund and author of "Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted," and Dr. Anne Davis, and consulting medical director for Physicians for Reproductive Health,discuss the case.
Source: wnyc.org