From the Thomas More Society:
The United States Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana
law regulating abortion, in what attorneys at the Thomas More Society are
labeling “a disappointing blow to states’ rights to protect the health and
wellbeing of their citizens.” Upholding a challenge by two abortionists, the
high court’s decision in June Medical v. Gee, denies Louisiana the
right to protect women by requiring those who perform abortions to have
admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case there are serious medical
complications that put the woman at risk.
Tom Brejcha, Thomas More Society President and Chief
Counsel, responded to the court’s verdict. “This judgement also effectively
allowed those who sell abortion services to sue on behalf of their potential
customers, to overturn state regulations put in place to protect those very
same customers.”
The not-for-profit public interest law firm has had a
vested interest in the outcome of this case, having filed two briefs in support
of Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Rebekah Gee. The first,
authored by former United States Solicitor General Kenneth Starr acting as
Special Counsel to the Thomas More Society, attacked the standing of the
abortionists to sue on behalf of their clients, ones that they claimed were
facing an “undue burden” by Louisiana’s limits on abortion access.
The Thomas More Society also submitted a brief to the high
court on behalf of Illinois Right to Life, challenging June Medical’s lawsuit
with the obsolescence of Roe v. Wade, in light of 47 years of
scientific progress in the areas of viability, fertility, and basic biology.
Brejcha explained what comes next for the Thomas More
Society in the abortion battle: “We had hoped for a decision affirming the
rights of a state to protect the health and safety of those within its borders.
The onus of doing so will now rest upon the citizens themselves. We will
redouble efforts to secure and defend the rights of individuals and groups to
speak out against abortion – the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech,
assembly and expressive association, and due process. Americans who believe in
the sanctity of human life have the right to rally against abortion, to offer
abortion-bound women information about life-affirming alternatives, and to pray
for the end of abortion, on public right of ways surrounding and leading to
abortion vendors. The playing field may have shifted but our commitment has not
wavered.”
From
The Catholic Association:
"Today the Supreme Court ruled in favor of special
treatment for unscrupulous abortion doctors who exploit women at a vulnerable
time. The Louisiana law nullified by the Court today was passed by
Rep. Katrina Jackson, a Democrat and an African-American woman who found evidence that
low-income women in her state were being harmed by incompetent abortionists
operating in unsanitary clinics. Rep. Jackson’s law required abortion
doctors to have the same admitting privileges as doctors at other out-patient
surgical clinics. There is abundant evidence of
abortion industry malpractice and a long line of notorious
abortionists like Dr.Kermit Gosnell, Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, Dr. Steven Chase
Bringham, Dr. Timothy Liveright, Dr. James Pendergraft, and many more. It is utterly incomprehensible that Chief
Justice Roberts, who just four years ago supported a similar Texas law in the
Hellerstedt case, would perform a contorted back-flip to shield abortionists
from a law requiring basic health and safety standards." Maureen
Ferguson is a Senior Fellow for The Catholic Association.
"Women’s safety once again loses at court in this
morning’s decision regarding a Louisiana law requiring admitting privileges for
abortion providers. It is a sad reflection of our society’s disregard for the
well-being of women that a common-sense regulation meant to protect them from
incompetent, dangerous practitioners should give way to political and
ideological interests. If the liberal justices led by Chief Justice Roberts
were doctors, and not simply jurists-playing-doctor and legislating from the
bench, they would know surgical abortion clinics ought to be held to the same
safety standards as any other surgical facility." Grazie Pozo
Christie, MD is Policy Advisor for The Catholic Association.
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