Posted on 03/27/2019 3:38:24 AM PDT by Libloather
A federal judge struck down a controversial law in North Carolina on Tuesday that banned abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.
U.S. District Judge William Osteen declared the ban unconstitutional in response to a 2016 lawsuit filed by several abortion rights organizations. Osteen cited other successful lawsuits around the country that have taken down bans on abortions that were based on weeks of pregnancy or gestational events. His decision will allow women in the state to obtain an abortion at any time prior to the viability of a fetus, which Osteen said would need to be determined on a case-by-case basis rather than by an arbitrary timeline.
“The Supreme Court has recognized that, while viability is the point at which the state’s legitimate interest rises to a level that may support an outright ban (with appropriate health exceptions), viability does not occur at a fixed number of weeks after the pregnancy begins but rather is determined individually in each case by a doctor,” the judge wrote in a 48-page decision. “No matter what the state’s legitimate interest in restricting abortion, this interest can never support an outright ban prior to viability.”
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It is a sad day for NC.An appointed judge rules for legalized sacrifice of the unborn.
William Osteen is a baby killer!
Bush or Kerry? Bush or Gore? Come on! He sucked, yes, but the alternative was? We’re woke now to the GOP thanks to Trump. Hopefully we never get fooled again in thr primary. Hindsight is 20/20.
In a few years, liberals will be saying the same with trump judges. And round and round we go. I am saddened this is a bush judge though.
I guess there’s no limit at all to this “right”, right Lindsey?
“That kind of gullibility and lack of discernment makes Christianity look like a faith of fools to those who are not in Christ. Too many Christians looked to a politician instead of to their Lord and Savior.”
Ditto “Christians’”lack of reading comprehension when asserting that government is sovereign in all human matters, which is the usual false conclusion from Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2. Those passages actually make the opposite undeniably clear to anyone who knows how to read consecutive sentences. Makes me nutz.
As I’ve said before, states should ignore these erroneous decisions by federal courts.
Abort Judge William Osteen.
You should post a list on a regular basis using your vast wisdom to let us ignorant Christians know whose faith is real and whose is not.
Do they do abortions at hospitals sometimes?
If so then you’re right.
Maybe a floor apart, 15 doctors and nurses are trying to save this baby’s life.
The floor above, they just ripped him/her to shreds.
Let’s not beat around the bush at what they do.
Show the images in school.
The children in those images will not have died in vain if it shocks teens into seeing reality
Unconstitutional? Where in the Constitution does it give anyone whatsoever the right to murder babies?
The Smirking Chimp's mother just came out as a Democrat posthumously...
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