>>9707007 (pb)

The article is full of shit regarding Roberts.

Louisiana has an 'admiting privileges' law that requires anyone who performs any surgical procedure outside of a hospital to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30m of the surgical location.

It is about patient safety. If a procedure goes wrong and they do having the surgeon with admitting privileges enables the surgeon to go with the patient into the OR so that they can provide constant information to the surgical team as they try and save the patient's life/limb/whatever.

To this point, abortion clinics have been exempted from this law because of muh-Roe-v-Wade.

What is interesting about this case, and where the court will more likely rule, is that the plaintiffs are not patients, but the abortion clinics.

In other words, the people who fuck up the procedures are trying to claim they have a right to continue fucking up procedures and then wash their hands of the problem when the patient requires hospitalization.

There is a 'standing' issue in this case – do those providers have the standing to even challenge the law given that they are not the patients whose lives and wellbeing the law is meant to preserve.

The cop-out for the Court will be on this issue. I'm guessing 5-4 or 6-3 on the standing, with the 3 or 4-member dissent indicating they would have ruled that the previous court rulings on abortion were moot and that the LA law should stand regardless of the procedure.