(CNN) The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to allow a Louisiana abortion access law to go into effect, arguing that it does not pose an unconstitutional burden on women seeking an abortion.

The legal brief comes in advance of March arguments in the blockbuster case, marking the first abortion-related challenge the court will hear since President Donald Trump's two nominees -- Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch -- took the bench.

The law at issue requires doctors to have admitting privileges in a local hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortion is performed. Critics say there is no medical justification for the law and are fearful that the case will provide the justices with a chance to chip away at abortion rights. A lower court upheld the law, but a 5-4 court, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court's liberals, stepped in to temporarily block the law to give the Supreme Court time to consider the issue.

In Friday's filing, Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the court in briefs that the law comports with Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. He argued that the law represents a state's "legitimate interest" in ensuring that abortion "like any other medical procedure" is performed under circumstances focused on the "maximum safety for the patient."

Francisco did not ask the Court to overturn prior precedent such as Roe, but suggested the justices might need to revisit a decision issued in 2016 where the court struck down a nearly identical law in Texas. He wrote that that case's ruling, which was decided when Justice Anthony Kennedy was still on the bench, might need to be "narrowed or overruled."

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