By Selwyn Duke

Thomas Jefferson once said that judicial supremacy would reduce our Constitution to a “suicide pact.” Now the Supreme Court is once again vindicating that assessment: On Friday it blocked a Louisiana law that would have saved babies’ lives by reducing the number of facilities licensed to commit pre-natal infanticide.

At issue is 2014 legislation that — mirroring laws in Texas and seven other states — requires “doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Lawmakers said this rule would help ensure consistent care for a patient who has a medical emergency that sends her to a hospital,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Admitting privileges enable a physician to admit a patient to a hospital and personally provide him with care at the facility (as opposed to the hospital’s doctors on staff assuming that responsibility).

Only Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the Friday stay of the Louisiana law…

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