Posted on 06/01/2015 3:41:43 PM PDT by Morgana
Three federal judges have unanimously struck down an Idaho law that banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling by the U.S. District Court for Idaho, which also found portions of the law unconstitutional.
Jennie McCormack, the plaintiff in the case, was arrested in 2011 for taking a pack of five pills she had obtained through the Internet to end a pregnancy. Police in Pocatello had learned through a tip that she had taken the pills to induce an abortion. Surgical abortions were not available in southeast Idaho, where she lived, according to court documents.
Instead of undergoing an inpatient procedure, which would have required McCormack to travel more than 150 miles, crossing the Utah state line, to Salt Lake City, she used a combination of medicine to induce an abortion in her home.
A physician determined that the fetus was between 19 and 23 weeks, which put McCormack's abortion on a fine line legally.
The Circuit Court's opinion released Friday reasoned that the law violated women's rights because it "categorically bans some abortions before viability" by prohibiting abortions before the 24-to-28-week viability benchmark.
Federal judges have stopped similar pre-viability abortion bans in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Arkansas and North Dakota.
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This is just the 9th Circus Court Jesters. Everyone knows they are insane.
“...which would have required McCormack to travel more than 150 miles...”
Oh, My! How terribly INCONVENIENT for her, in order to murder her baby!
Our Governor, Scott Walker (R, WI), is getting ready to sign our 20-week abortion ban bill, too. Public hearing is tomorrow. I’m sure the Pro-Aborts will be burning down our Capitol Building, starting at dawn...
Wisconsin women kill about 7,000 of their babies each year.
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