Women, Paul Weiss Step Up to Support Abortion Rights at SCOTUS

Hundreds of women who have had abortions joined multiple groups in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

In an unusual move, 368 female legal professionals—including retired judges, prosecutors, public defenders, professors, law students, and a senior Department of Justice attorney—joined a friend of the court brief to emphasize the “importance of the constitutional right to safe and legal abortion.”

Speaking for themselves and for the one-in-four American women who have terminated pregnancies, the women said forced pregnancies and childbirth would impose great ...