Geoffrey R. Stone Files Brief in Abortion Rights Case
Along with Columbia Law School Professor Gillian E. Metzger and attorney Lori Alvino McGill, Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Women’s Health v. Cole on behalf of sixteen of the nation’s most distinguished constitutional scholars, including David A. Strauss, the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law.
At issue in the case are the constitutionality of two Texas regulations that sharply restrict access to abortion. One requires all physicians performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles of where the abortion is performed, and the other mandates that abortions be performed in facilities meeting the requirements of an “ambulatory surgical center.”
The brief argues that courts must review abortion regulations that claim to protect women’s health to ensure that they actually do so and don’t have either the purpose or effect of unduly—and unconstitutionally—obstructing abortion access.
Read the brief (PDF).