Conservatives usually are not fans of arbitrary, heavy-handed, anti-competitive, counterproductive regulations. But as a case the Supreme Court will hear today shows, they make an exception for abortion. As Senior Editor Jacob Sullum explains, that’s because these regulations, ostensibly aimed at making abortion safer, are actually aimed at making abortion rarer. While suppressing economic activity is an unwanted side effect of the regulations conservatives tend to criticize, it is the whole point of the Texas law they are defending.
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