BREAKING: SCOTUS Strikes Down Texas Abortion Regulations The Supreme Court struck down Texas widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics Monday in the courts biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were only a veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get abortions in the nations second-most populous state. Justice Stephen Breyers majority opinion for the court held that the regulations are medically unnecessary and unconstitutionally limit a womans right to an abortion. Texas had argued that its 2013 law and subsequent regulations were needed to protect womens health. The rules required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and forced clinics to meet hospital-like standards for outpatient surgery. Breyer wrote that the surgical-center requirement, like the admitting privileges requirement, provides few, if any, health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions and constitutes an undue burden on their constitutional right to do so. Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined Breyer. Alito, reading a summary of his dissent in court, said the clinics should have lost on technical, procedural grounds. Alito said the court was adopting a rule of, If at first you dont succeed, sue, sue again. My opinion is that I fail to see where in our Constitution it is written that a women has the right to murder an unborn child. Our rights are always up for debate, actual rights that we have. Yet ones that dont exist are protected. 