‘The Louisiana case stems from a constitutional challenge to a law passed in 2014 by the state's Republican-led legislature that required physicians who perform abortions to hold “active admitting privileges” at a hospital within 30 miles of their facility.’ ibid
A law passed in bad faith having nothing to do with the ‘health and safety’ of women, and everything to do with further eroding the right to privacy.
In Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt the Court struck down a similar Texas law with the same unlawful, bad faith provision, placing an undue – and un-Constitutional – burden on the right to privacy.
If the Louisiana law is allowed to stand, Republican lawmakers hostile to the right to privacy will be able to enact de facto abortion bans through onerous, draconian regulatory measures intended to drive healthcare providers out of business, depriving women of their fundamental right to decide whether to have a child or not.
I read the oral argument in
Whole Woman's Health a while back. The "conservatives" on the court only asked procedural questions, but the Texas solicitor general got hammered by the other justices. The law only applied to the performance of abortions, but as the AMA, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and many other health groups told the court in amicus briefs, colonoscopies are rated as more risky. Then he was asked about women who could not get to the only clinic that would remain open. He replied that they could go to New Mexico, which does not have this type of law. Texas presented no statistical evidence or any other evidence that abortions were riskier. The "safety" argument was so totally bogus, but the Texas attorneys had to think of something to defend the law, and they came up with that. They certainly couldn't make an argument based on sectarian religion, so they essentially lied to the court.