When the Supreme Court hears arguments this week in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt — the Center for Reproductive Rights’ challenge to the unprecedented barriers Texas created in 2013 to stop women from accessing safe and legal abortion — the first question justices should ask is this:

If the state bars you from exercising a constitutional right, do you really have that right at all?

That’s what’s at stake in Hellerstedt, which challenges the Texas legislature’s H.B. 2, a law imposing medically unnecessary requirements on health centers, regulating everything from the width of hallways to the outfitting of janitors’ closets — specifications that many health centers find impossible to fulfill and that do nothing to improve the quality of health care for women. Medical experts oppose this law because it hurts women by shutting down clinics and blocking access to safe, legal abortion — our right guaranteed by the court in Roe v. Wade.