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    The Louisiana Clinic At The Center Of Abortion Case Before Supreme Court

    Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport is challenging a 2014 state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case of an emergency.
    by Sarah McCammon Dec 29, 2019 4 minutes
    The case is set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4.

    On a recent Saturday morning at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Kathaleen Pittman was preparing for a day of procedures, as a couple dozen patients sat quietly in the waiting area.

    Her clinic is challenging a law passed by Louisiana's state legislature in 2014, which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case of an emergency. The case, June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee, is scheduled to go before the U.S. Supreme Court next year, and the court's decision has the potential to chip away at existing precedent protecting abortion rights.

    "The whole process of trying to obtain privileges is crazy," Pittman says. "It's time-consuming. It could be a process of

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