Posted on 08/07/2019 7:43:53 AM PDT by Morgana
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CN) — The federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of Arkansas abortion restrictions extended her order Tuesday while a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the laws proceeds through court.
U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker in Little Rock issued a preliminary injunction hours before her two-week temporary restraining order was set to expire. The July 23 restraining order was issued the day before the new laws were to take effect.
Tuesday’s 186-page order found the three laws that include a ban on abortion after 18 weeks of pregnancy would cause “ongoing and imminent irreparable harm.” The judge also blocked as unconstitutional a restriction prohibiting physicians from providing the procedure unless they are board-certified or board-eligible in obstetrics and gynecology.
“Since the record at this stage of the proceedings indicates that women seeking abortions in Arkansas face an imminent threat to their constitutional rights, the court concludes that they will suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief,” Baker wrote.
The order also blocked enforcement of a law prohibiting doctors from performing an abortion on the basis of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, swiftly appealed to the Eighth Circuit. Amanda Priest, a spokeswoman for Rutledge, said in a statement that the attorney general “continues to defend Arkansas law protecting women’s health by requiring a board certified or eligible OBGYN to perform an abortion, as well as Arkansas laws that protect unborn life by prohibiting abortions after 18 weeks and at any time if based on a Down syndrome diagnosis.”
The state’s only surgical abortion clinic, Little Rock Family Planning Services, and Planned Parenthood Great Plains filed the lawsuit challenging the three laws, with two physicians as co-plaintiffs. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The strict measures, signed by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson in March, would have eliminated abortions in some cases and would have forced the state’s only surgical abortion clinic to close.
“These extreme bans and restrictions would have decimated abortion access in Arkansas, so we’re relieved the court has again blocked them from taking effect,” said Holly Dickson, legal director and interim executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas. “This ruling ensures our clients can continue to provide quality, compassionate medical care to Arkansans while we work to strike down these laws for good.”
Arkansas’ 18-week abortion ban is similar to a Utah measure that Planned Parenthood of Utah and the state agreed to put on hold in April pending a federal court challenge.
Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia have also recently passed toughened abortion restrictions.
Whatever two consenting gametes do in the privacy of a Fallopian tube is their own business.
An Obama appointee. Go figure.
“ongoing and imminent irreparable harm” = Bringing a child into the world?
“The order also blocked enforcement of a law prohibiting doctors from performing an abortion on the basis of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.”
And abortions for gender selection is probably okay too, eh your honor?
Irreparable harm eh?
I’m sure these judges will block all guns laws too under the same rationalization.
An Obama appointee. Go figure.
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And CONFIRMED BY VOICE VOTE!
Ongoing and imminent irreparable harm to our goal of killing every black child we can get our hands on.
Yep, Ruth Bader Ginsburg says we gotta abort those “populations we don’t want too many of”.
Patriots are reminded that, in stark contrast to the rights that the states expressly protected when they amended the Bill of Rights to the Constitution for example, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called “right” to murder unborn children.
In other words, the politically correct “constitutional right” to murder unborn children was scandalously established by judicial fiat of post-17th Amendment ratification tyrant justices imo.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Where is the law that the judge ruled from?
Without law is non-law, which is unlaw; outlaw; lawless.
Jail for judges who create law out-of-thin-air. Prison.
When did she say that?
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. “
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html
...the attorney general “continues to defend Arkansas law protecting women’s health by requiring a board certified or eligible OBGYN to perform an abortion, as well as Arkansas laws that protect unborn life by prohibiting abortions after 18 weeks and at any time if based on a Down syndrome diagnosis.”
Some of us don't understand that the law often has nothing to do with Judicial decisions. It's really Enemy Judges versus Objective Judges.
Ping to Nero Germanicus.
Where does a federal judge have authority in this case. Like so many other things. Federal judges have no standing.
On November 2, 2011, President Obama nominated Baker to be a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. She replaced District Judge James Maxwell Moody who took senior status on October 1, 2008.
She received her hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 26, 2012, and her nomination was reported to the floor on February 16, 2012, by voice vote, with Senator Mike Lee recording the only no vote. On May 7, 2012, her nomination was confirmed by voice vote. She received her commission on May 8, 2012.
U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker is another Barack Obama stooge. Go figure!
This is as always a usurping of federalism itself.
Activist will be protesting in front of the Democrat and RINO supported Abortion Clinic at 4 office drive, little rock, AR starting at 9am. I will try to film and livestream.
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