Common Sense Abortion Laws?

Sorry, Fred... Maybe you can sell your fact-free, echo-chamber "they did it too" stuff in Bob's little private Rightie-forum... How's it working out for ya here?

Arkansas 12-Week Abortion Ban Challenged In Court

The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint in an Arkansas district court on Tuesday challenging the state's newly adopted ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The law is one of the most extreme abortion restrictions in the country, second only to North Dakota's six-week ban on the procedure.

The Center and the ACLU argued in the complaint that the 12-week ban violates the Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey that protect a woman's right to have an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb.

"In violation of over 40 years of Supreme Court precedent, the Act bans abortion care starting at 12 weeks of pregnancy, threatening the rights, liberty, and well-being of Arkansas women and their families," the complaint says. "Flouting the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Act violates the right to be free from unwarranted intrusion by politicians into matters so fundamentally affecting the course of a woman’s life as the decision whether and when to have a child, and whether or not to carry a previable pregnancy to term."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/1 ... 93760.html

North Dakota's Six-Week Abortion Ban Challenged in Federal Court

A women’s rights group filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday to block the country’s most stringent abortion law, a North Dakota ban on abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy.

Adopted in March, the law forbids abortions once a fetal heartbeat is “detectable,” which can be as early as six weeks and before some women know they are pregnant. Rights groups and the state’s only abortion clinic, the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, promised at the time to bring a legal challenge.

According to the Supreme Court, women have a right to an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb, which is often around 24 weeks into pregnancy. The enforcement of another early limit on abortions — a ban at 12 weeks that was enacted by Arkansas in March — was temporarily blocked last month by a federal judge, who said it was likely to be found unconstitutional.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/l ... .html?_r=0

Court strikes down anti-abortion law in Arizona

A panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down a restrictive Arizona law, or “medical regulation as it was called,” that sought to prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy except in cases of medical emergency.

It was the second time in as many weeks that a federal court has ruled against an anti-abortion statute, in each case on grounds that it violated the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion across America.

Ten states have enacted laws that, in essence, ban abortion before a fetus can possibly become viable outside the womb, which is considered to be the 24th week of pregnancy. Arkansas banned abortion after the 12th week, in a law blocked last week by a U.S. District Court judge.

In striking down the Arizona “regulation” — enacted in 2012 and signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer – Judge Marsha Berzon of the 9th Circuit wrote in a unanimous opinion: “A woman has a constitutional right to choose to terminate her pregnancy before the fetus is viable.”

The three-judge panel did not buy the state’s “medical regulation argument,” with Judge Berzon writing: “The challenged Arizona statute’s medical emergency exception does not transform the law from a prohibition on abortion into a regulation of abortion procedures.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepoliti ... n-arizona/

Kansas judge considering challenge to abortion law

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Allowing Kansas to enforce a sweeping, new anti-abortion law while a lawsuit against it is pending would respect the democratic process, an attorney for the state said Thursday during a court hearing on whether the law should be put on hold temporarily.

Shawnee County District Judge Rebecca Crotty heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by Dr. Herbert Hodes and his daughter, Dr. Traci Nauser, who perform abortions at their Overland Park health center. The law is set to take effect Monday, and Crotty said she expects to rule on temporarily blocking parts or all of it before then.

The law bans sex-selection abortions, blocks tax breaks for abortion providers and prohibits them from furnishing materials or instructors for public schools' sexuality courses. It spells out in greater detail what information must be provided to patients before their pregnancies can be terminated, including a statement that abortion ends the life of "whole, separate, unique, living human being."

Hodes and Nauser argue the restrictions violate their right to equal legal protection guaranteed by the Kansas Constitution. They are also seeking a ruling that a declaration in the new law that life begins "at fertilization" is merely a statement and not an attempt to regulate abortion — as supporters have insisted.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kans ... 625125.php

The Strictest Abortion Laws In The Nation Are Fast Approaching Their Day In Court

The states home to the United States’ harshest abortion restrictions, North Dakota and Arkansas, are both facing legal challenges over their new laws — and in both states, those battles have begun to advance this week.

In North Dakota, reproductive rights activists filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to challenge a measure that threatens to shut down the last remaining abortion clinic in the state. And in Arkansas, a district judge sided with abortion providers on Wednesday, denying the state’s request to drop the lawsuit against its new 12-week abortion ban and allowing the doctors’ challenge against it to continue.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based group that assists with litigation to defend women’s right to legal abortion, is also preparing to file suit against several other new anti-choice laws in North Dakota — including a measure that criminalizes abortions after just six weeks of pregnancy. Taken together, all of the new restrictions that North Dakota enacted this session would make it more difficult for women to terminate their pregnancies there than anywhere else in the country.

“‘With their relentless campaign to end safe and legal abortion in North Dakota, lawmakers have effectively told the women of their state, ‘We don’t care about your health, we don’t care about your safety, and we sure don’t care about your constitutional and human rights,’ ” the group’s president, Nancy Northrup, said in a statement this week. “Our message back to politicians hostile to reproductive rights in North Dakota and nationwide is crystal clear: We are going to fight back relentlessly against your attacks on the women of your state.”

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05 ... aws-court/

FredHayek wrote: That is rich! Accusing the GOP of hiding things in bills when the Senate passed Obamacare and Immigration without reading it.

The Republican's reading-comprehension problems and laziness are not my problem.

LadyJazzer wrote:

FredHayek wrote: That is rich! Accusing the GOP of hiding things in bills when the Senate passed Obamacare and Immigration without reading it.

The Republicans reading-comprehension problems and laziness are not my problem.

Memo: Add Nancy "we have to pass it to find out what's in it" Pelosi to that list.

So, today, Texas is the next state to pass the ridiculous, unconstitutional abortion laws...(in their SECOND Special Session, since they couldn't ram it through in regular session, or in the first Special Session.) (NOTE: In the HOUSE: 98-49.... It goes to the Senate tomorrow, where it will likely pass...)

I think we should start a pool on how long it takes for the law to be challenged in Federal Appeals Court, and an injunction issued....

...In 5-4-3-2-1....

If the Republicans spent less time worrying about women's reproductive rights and passing laws that can't survive judicial review, and more time actually working on the economic issues of this country and the states........maybe the citizens would have more respect for the GOP and the Tea Party....right now.....they look like a bunch of buffoons.....

Seriously, the conservatives bitch about Obama and the Democrats and the perceived lack of leadership.....when their own party can't see anything beyond punishing women for their fight for equality and control of their own womb. So much effort going into women's reproductive rights......and so little effort spent on the real issues facing this nation and the states.

What the right is concerned about is the most fundamental of all of our inalienable rights, one's right to life. The woman made a reproductive choice, she chose to engage in reproductive activities and by so doing helped to create a new human life. She doesn't have a right to make the choice to destroy a life that is not her own. We do not, in this Union of ours, pretend that any individual has sole say over the life and death of another human life in any other instance other than this one. This is the sole remaining instance where a single individual, who is not impartial, gets to be judge and jury in deciding the fate of another human life and is empowered to go out and hire their own executioner to do their dirty work for them.

archer wrote: If the Republicans spent less time worrying about women's reproductive rights and passing laws that can't survive judicial review, and more time actually working on the economic issues of this country and the states........maybe the citizens would have more respect for the GOP and the Tea Party....right now.....they look like a bunch of buffoons.....

Seriously, the conservatives bitch about Obama and the Democrats and the perceived lack of leadership.....when their own party can't see anything beyond punishing women for their fight for equality and control of their own womb. So much effort going into women's reproductive rights......and so little effort spent on the real issues facing this nation and the states.

If restricting late term abortions is such a loser issue, why does the GOP still keep winning elections and continue to own Congress?

Yes, that's why you lost 17 teabaggers in the last election cycle...(18, if you count Bachmann)... That's why Governors, like McDonnell are likely to be under indictment, and right-wing governors and legislators at the state level are on a path to lose in the next cycle... It's called "political overreach", and it's one of the things I love about the TeaBagger Party... They're sooooo predictable.

That "we won in 2010" isn't getting much traction these days, is it....

If restricting abortions is such a great idea, and working for you so well, how come it's getting tossed out in every court in every state where the clowns try it?

Just keep doin' what yer doin'... PLEASE...

Not getting tossed out in State courts, are they Jazzer. Nope, the courts those seeking to overturn the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives are running to are federal in nature.

Funny how "progressives" are all about "will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives" until those elected representatives enact a law which they disapprove of, isn't it? Amazing how they continually cite the how the majority of the people in a certain area support a law until the majority of the people support a law they oppose, in't it? Amazing how they are only interested in uniting instead of dividing behind their point of view, wouldn't you say?

As I've noted before, Democrats are only interested in democracy when they are the majority. "Progressives" only view thier ideology as being "progress", only inclusive of you if you embrace their point of view. I'll credit them with following one of their favorite catch phrases though, they are indeed transparent about their ultimate goal of fundamentally transforming the republic into a social democracy.

Let's look at Lady Jazzer's "will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives..."

UT/TT Poll (University of Texas/Texas Tech)

62 percent said they would support “prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks based on the argument that a fetus can feel pain at that point,” and that same percentage said they support “prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks.”

http://www.texastribune.org/2013/06/20/ ... abortions/

A majority of Texans are in favor of this 20 week ban and that's why what Lady Jazzer is really for is a "cheering mob rule rather than representative democracy."