Posted on 07/01/2016 10:38:25 AM PDT by jld67
A federal judge blocked an Indiana law Thursday that would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, saying that the state does not have the authority to limit a woman's reasons for ending a pregnancy.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction requested by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which argued that the law was unconstitutional and violated women's privacy rights. The law was set to take effect Friday.
North Dakota is the only other state that prohibits abortions because of genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome or because of the race, gender or ancestry of a fetus.
Pratt said the Indiana law would go against U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have declared states may not prohibit a woman from seeking an abortion before a fetus is able to live outside the womb. She also said the state had not cited any exceptions to that standard.
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and the NAZI Third Rich aborted all Down syndrome babies too.
Double edged sword here. It,will allow people,to abort babies because they are female, or are worried they will be gay.
Of course since they are not people to libs, all lib arguments that attempt to personify the fetus are null and void by the libs themselves.
Is it also an unconstitutional violation of a woman’s privacy to forbid her from killing such children after they have already exited the womb? For that matter, why restrict women from killing any child for any reason they want until those children are strong enough to fight back?
Homosexuality = Genetic abnormality?
India has tried to stem the abortion of females (unsuccessfully); doctors from the same primitive culture simply perform them without indicating the parents were aware of the baby’s gender.
God will not be mocked.
“saying that the state does not have the authority to limit a woman’s reasons for ending a pregnancy”
Bunk
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