Evaluating Priorities Amicus Brief
- Amici are organizations committed to improving the health and well-being of women and their families nationally and in the state of Louisiana.
- Signers argue that Louisiana chronically lags behind other states in critical health outcomes, and women and children in Louisiana face some of the most dire health conditions in the United States.
- Louisiana justifies Act 620 based on an asserted interest in promoting women’s health, but the State’s health outcomes and policy choices indicate that the state merely plays lip service to that stated interest.
- Signers urge the Supreme Court to consider Louisiana’s poor health outcomes and its failure to make evidence-based policy choices in assessing the stated purpose of Act 620.
- Hogan Lovells LLP is pro bono counsel.
