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kalikshama -> RE: More on the War on Women (7/30/2012 5:56:12 PM)
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Federal Judge Upholds Arizona Law Criminalizing All Abortions After 20 Weeks
...Arizona's law bans abortion at an earlier gestational stage than similar laws recently enacted in the country (at least nine states have some form of abortion ban) and it bans abortion at a critical time when most women undergo prenatal testing to evaluate their own health and the status of a pregnancy. The ban would force a physician caring for a woman with a high-risk pregnancy to wait until her condition imposes an immediate threat of death or major medical damage before offering her the care she needs. The ban also contains no exceptions for a woman who receives the devastating diagnosis that her fetus will not survive after birth, thereby forcing women to continue to carry to term fetuses they know will die.
“This law forces a sick, pregnant woman to wait until she is on the brink of disaster before her doctor can provide her medically appropriate care,” said Dan Pochoda, legal director of the ACLU of Arizona. “We will continue the fight to protect women's health and to ensure they can get the care they need.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU have made clear their plan to immediately file an emergency appeal of today’s decision to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent the law from going into effect.
“Today’s decision casts aside decades of legal precedent, ignoring constitutional protections for reproductive rights that have been upheld by the United States Supreme Court for nearly 40 years and threatening women’s health and lives," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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