Ban on Type of Abortion Ruled Unconstitutional
A state law banning a type of late-term abortion is unconstitutional because it lacks an exception to protect a woman’s health, a federal appeals panel ruled.
The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond upheld a 2003 ruling by a federal judge that said the law was “unconstitutional on its face.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights had challenged the law banning a procedure generally performed in the second or third trimester in which a fetus is partially delivered before being aborted.
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