Posted on 01/15/2016 8:46:37 PM PST by kathsua
Abortion advocates in Oklahoma lost a round in court this week when a judge rejected their argument against a state law requiring abortion clinics to provide information to help protect young rape victims.
Oklahoma County District Judge Thomas Prince rejected a request from Larry A. Burns and the Center for Reproductive Rights to rule the new law unconstitutional Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. However, the judge did uphold an Oklahoma Supreme Court order that stops the law from taking effect until the case is fully resolved, the AP reports.
Burns, an abortion doctor in Norman, Oklahoma, and his pro-abortion attorneys argued that the law violates a state constitutional requirement that legislation cover a single subject, according to Courthouse News Service. Judge Prince rejected the argument, ruling that the four sections of the law are “germane,†according to the report.
The report details the provisions of Senate Bill 642:
Section 1 levies criminal and civil penalties for helping a minor get an abortion without parental consent;
Section 2 requires girls younger than 14 to submit fetal tissue samples to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for rape investigation;
Section 3 allows the Department of Health to conduct unannounced searches of abortion facilities;
Section 4 deems anyone who violates S.B. 642 guilty of a felony, punishable by fines of up $100,000 per day of violation.
Burns and his pro-abortion attorneys have challenged pro-life laws in Oklahoma at least eight times since 2010, according to the report. Burns also challenged the state’s admitting privileges law and its ultrasound law, which the courts struck down.
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In another case, an Oklahoma district judge also put on hold a state law to ban dismemberment abortions that tear babies limb from limb in October, according to a local news report. The law made Oklahoma the second state in the nation to protect unborn children from dismemberment abortions. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed similar legislation prohibiting dismemberment abortions in April.
A third pro-life law passed in Oklahoma earlier this year to increase the waiting period for abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours, LifeNews.com previously reported. That law also was challenged, but an Oklahoma district judge refused to delay that law, according to the report.
State Sen. Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, who authored several of the bills, said: “In Oklahoma, we have a waiting period for divorce of 10 days. If there are minor children it is 90 days. We should also take it very seriously when we’re talking about the irrevocable decision of abortion.â€
Good, it is about time.
Northeast Judges would have ruled the other way, Specifically Donald Trumps sister. Its a New York value thing.
Never post a state court judges decision on anything.
Lost a round in court. A round in court. This should not even be an issue. You turn in child rapists. What the hell has happened to this society?
And I know a gal who worked at a home for pregnant teens. Most if not all of them had been raped by a friendly uncle who was much older. The hole abortion thing for underage girls is to protect the older guy who raped her, statutory rape is still rape. The friendly older guys always told the gals they loved them, really truly loved them. Then as soon as the girl was PG, the ‘man’ vanished. My friend who worked at one of these homes said her main mission was to convince the young girls that this is NOT love. Most of the girls were around 14 years old and thought the guys really loved them. Until they got PG... But they still believed it was love. They are too young to even know what love is. But abortion keeps the rapists out of jail...
The home where she worked was in Detroit.
So to PROVE to all of us that NY has ‘values’ the New Yorker put a picture of the Statue of Liberty on front, giving the finger big time, saying Drop Dead Ted. Well that doesn’t make us think NY is now nice and warm and loving! Makes it look like Ted was RIGHT! Sure NY held together during 911 but we do that during hurricanes, and the aftermath. But our Texas values are forever, not just for one day.
I grew up in Queens, NYC and spent three great years in Texas as a grunt for Uncle Sam at Fort Hood. Truly loved the small towns around the post, especially Belton Lake where we used to water ski and play who can stay on the skis the longest while the driver of the boat does everything in his power to launch you off somebody elses wake.
What doesn’t make sense is why an agency (PP) that claims it provides abortions for victims of rape and the government who wants to use statistics of rape victims to justify funding these abortions.... don’t want those rapes reported.
bfl
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