UPDATE 1-U.S. Supreme Court puts temporary hold on Louisiana abortion restrictions
Alito said that the restrictions, which were to go into effect on Monday, will be put on hold until at least Feb. 7. Hope Medical Group challenged the law's requirement that doctors who perform abortions must have a difficult-to-obtain formal relationship called "admitting privileges" at a hospital within 30 miles (48 km) of where the procedure will be performed.
Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion rights group that represents the challengers, said the law could force the closure of two of the three abortion clinics operating in Louisiana, a state of more than 4.6 million people. The Republican-backed law was passed in 2014 but courts have prevented it from going into effect. The Supreme Court itself blocked the law in 2016, two days after hearing another major case involving a similar Texas measure that the justices eventually struck down.
Kennedy, a conservative who retired in July 2018, had voted to preserve abortion rights in pivotal 1992 and 2016 cases. Republican President Donald Trump replaced Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, one of two Trump appointees who are part of the court's 5-4 conservative majority, along with Neil Gorsuch. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)
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