Court Blocks Arkansas Bans on Late-Term and Down Syndrome Abortions

[mystery-ak]

Dr. Susan Berry 8 Jan 2021

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that blocks multiple Arkansas pro-life laws, including bans on late-term abortions and those based on sex of the unborn baby and a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

“As the district court recognized, the law governing the constitutionality of two of the three statutes at issue — Act 493 and Act 619 — though obviously subject to change in the future, is well established in this Circuit today,” the three-judge panel said in Tuesday’s ruling in the case of Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Leslie Rutledge.

The panel continued:

The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that its pre-viability rule is categorical: “Regardless of whether exceptions are made for particular circumstances, a State may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability.” … We have applied the rule categorically, even while recognizing “that viability varies among pregnancies and that improvements in medical technology will both push later in pregnancy the point at which abortion is safer than childbirth and advance earlier in gestation the point of fetal viability.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/08/court-blocks-arkansas-bans-on-late-term-and-down-syndrome-abortions/

[jmyrlefuller]

Until a poison pill prevents any judge or court within a state's bounds from hearing challenges under penalty of law, there will be no point in passing this kabuki legislation.

[Hoodat]

Conspicuously absent in the ruling was any reference to the wording of the Constitution itself.

[Avalon1]

These judges have way too much power, only the Supreme Court should have the power to strike down laws and executive actions.