Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Injunction Lifted on Abortion Law
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A federal judge in Philadelphia lifted an injunction that had prevented Pennsylvania’s restrictive abortion law from taking effect. A state spokesman said parts of the five-year-old law could take effect immediately. U.S. District Judge Daniel H. Huyett III lifted a ban a week after U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter rejected an appeal by abortion providers. The law requires women to receive counseling about alternatives to abortion and then wait 24 hours before undergoing the procedure.
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