WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court hasn’t heard an abortion case in nine years. But pro-choice activists are hoping they’ll decide this fall to take up a major Texas abortion case that threatens to close all but 10 clinics in the state. The last case the Supreme Court heard on abortion would initially appear to have little in common with the one now at its doorstep. Gonzales v. Carhart, decided in 2007, concerned a particular method for second-trimester procedures. The current Texas case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, is about whether clinics performing abortions must be constructed as mini-hospitals and whether doctors doing the procedure must have admitting...
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