Rebekah Gee et al., Respondents
Elizabeth B. Murrill, Counsel of Record
In 2014 the Louisiana legislature passed Act 620, a law requiring doctors in the state who performed abortions to have admitting rights at a local hospital. The law mirrored ones passed previously in states such as Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Texas, which resulted in the closure of numerous abortion clinics. When the Louisiana law went into effect in 2016, a group of doctors in Louisiana who performed abortions and the clinics where they worked filed suit against the state and its officials …
