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On Wednesday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal blocked Arizona from enforcing a new state ban on almost any abortion after 20 weeks.
The three-judge panel issued the injunction just two days after a lower court upheld the ban on the basis as constitutional. The measure bars doctors from performing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in a medical emergency, defined as a case where an immediate abortion is required to avert the mother’s death or a risk of “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.” Under the law, physicians found in violation of the ban would face a misdemeanor criminal charge and possible suspension or revocation of their licenses, despite the fact that Supreme Court precedent suggests banning abortion pre-viability is patently unconstitutional.
The ruling prompted the appeal to the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit.
“We are relieved that the court blocked this dangerous ban and that women in Arizona will continue to be able to get safe, appropriate medical care,” ACLU staff attorney Alexa Kolbi-Molinas said in a statement.
Under the two-page order issued by the appeals court, attorneys have until mid-October to present their briefs, and then the case will be placed on the first available argument calendar for a hearing.
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+ add your ownGood for them. Women's rights!!! Marcie troll, why don't you head back to Alabama or Mississippi or whatever backwards anti-woman place you came from..
@Marcie J. Read this article (http://www.barryyeoman.com/articles/gina.html) and tell me if you think that late-term abortions should be banned.
@Marcie J. So you would condemn women who have a legitimate medical reason to abort after 20 weeks the possibility of doing so?
I'm tired of people thinking that women who have abortions take it lightly. It's a difficult decision but it is the one that only the woman and her doctor can make. Women are not stupid. They are perfectly capable of thinking for themselves and evaluating critically their situations.
The objective that we should all be able to agree upon is that there be as few abortions as possible. That means providing contraception and help with family planning. (I don't want to hear about Margaret Sanger and eugenics. Many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves yet we don't throw out what they accomplished because of that. Different times.)
You don't have to have an abortion if you don't want one. However, I sincerely hope that neither you or any one that you know ever has to face a situation where, in the best interests of the mother, an abortion is the solution.
@ Marcie
"murder of a tiny baby."
First, of all it isn't "murder" if it were, someone by now would have been charged with the crime of murder.
Secondly, it isn't a tiny "baby"- its a wad of sperm.
My body, my choice.
Wait a minute. People think this is a GOOD THING? Give me a break. A woman should certainly know by 20 weeks if she's pregnant and by then its the murder of a tiny baby. This sickens me. If I hear one more thing about the woman's rights I'll scream...does anyone care about the baby's rights???
An intelligent act in Arizona remarkable.
Thanks for the update.
Threatening the Doctors was a BIG mistake. As long as this War was directed only at us lowly women, things were moving right along. The zealots forgot that the AMA has its own Power to push back. Women, Don't Vote for any person who has Waged this War!!!
I do not understand how any man that was born of a woman can deny all women equality in all things human. There is a deep seated fear of sexual equality here that is being expressed by the rabid right wingers, but I have, as of yet, not been able to find out which patch of bushes the republicans must have driven through to pick up this particularly heinous piece of trash. I do know they are so far off the road, to the right, that there is no pavement under their tread less little 10 speed tires to give them any traction at all in a world occupied by thinking, compassionate, did I say reasoning, humane, people! The tea party is lost in its own sea of hatred and fear.
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