On June 27, the Supreme Court invalidated the onerous anti-abortion laws known as Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers (TRAP). The anti-abortion movement claims these laws — which have proliferated since 2010 — protect women’s health. But in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court rebutted this claim, declaring that Texas’s abortion restrictions place an undue burden on and substantial obstacle in the way of women seeking abortions.

By siding with the freestanding clinics that perform nearly every abortion in the United States — in 2011, 94 percent of all abortions occurred at these establishments, even though they represented only 47 percent of abortion-providing facilities — the Supreme Court stood with abortion patients and the providers who serve them.

This moment matters not only for Texas women, but also for the entire reproductive justice movement. Between 2011 and 2015, states enacted 288 abortion restrictions. Just since the start of 2016, another thirty-eight restrictions have been passed.