In the coming months, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear its first abortion case since the court became dominated by conservative justices, giving Americans their clearest look yet at how powerful the anti-abortion movements narrative is in the face of medical facts.

The case, June Medical Services v. Gee, concerns a Louisiana law passed in 2014 that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The laws supporters say its intended to protect those who have emergency complications from abortion procedures a talking point that, on its surface, people on both sides of the issue could get behind.

But in reality, the law the Supreme Court is reviewing which would leave just one abortion provider in the entire state of Louisiana is based on the falsehood that abortion is a dangerous procedure.

Its one of the safest medical procedures you can have, with a less than 1% [major] complication rate, said Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a family medicine physician in Texas and the medical director for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which operates two clinics in Louisiana.

Ninety-five percent of women who have abortions in the U.S. receive them in clinics or offices like those operated by Planned Parenthood, and those settings are perfectly equipped for such a procedure, according to a large study published last year by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Anything that hints at or creates the possibility that abortion is not safe is absolutely untrue, Kumar continued, noting that the procedure is also incredibly common, with 1 in 4 women receiving an abortion in her lifetime.

Moreover, complications are almost always manageable in a clinic, Kumar said, and in the rare instances that they arent, patients would be admitted to a hospital for emergency care with or without a law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges.