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Cite as:  591 U. S. ____ (2020) 

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standing to assert the constitutional rights of their patients and con-
cluded that because Louisiana’s Act 620 imposes a burden on access to
abortion just as severe as that imposed by the nearly identical Texas
law invalidated four years ago in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 
579 U. S. ___, it cannot stand under principles of stare decisis.  Pp. 1– 
16.

 BREYER,  J.,  announced  the  judgment  of  the  Court  and  delivered  an 
opinion, in which GINSBURG, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined.  ROB-
ERTS, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment.  THOMAS, J., filed 
a dissenting opinion.  ALITO, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which GOR-
SUCH, J., joined, in which THOMAS, J., joined except as to Parts III–C and 
IV–F, and in which KAVANAUGH, J., joined as to Parts I, II, and III.  GOR-
SUCH, J., and KAVANAUGH, J., filed dissenting opinions.