On June 29, the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law mandating that the state's abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges. Abortion opponents argue that such mandates make abortions safer.
Related complications result in emergency-room visits for 0.87% of abortions. Ruling on the Louisiana law, a lower court found that even in the case of complications, providers were easily able to admit patients to hospitals without admitting privileges. The June decision followed the court's own precedent in overturning a nearly identical 2013 Texas law.