A federal appeals court just held that abortion providers have no constitutional protections

A federal appeals court held on Tuesday that abortion providers “do not have a Fourteenth Amendment right to perform abortions” — and thus the state of Ohio could require them to either give up public funding for non-abortion care or stop performing abortions.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio v. Hodges was handed down entirely along party lines, with a total of 11 Republican jud...