Federal Judge: Texas Abortion Limits Unconstitutional (drug, lawyers, government, states)

[Unsettomati]

Fed judge: Texas abortion limits unconstitutional - Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled on Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled.

District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday that the regulations violated the rights of abortion doctors to do what they think is best for their patients and would unreasonably restrict a woman's access to abortion clinics.

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers brought the lawsuit, arguing that a requirement that doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic would force the closure of a third of the clinics in Texas. They also complained that requiring doctors to follow the Food and Drug Administration's original label for an abortion-inducing drug would deny women the benefit of recent advances in medical science.

Judge Yeakel was appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate in 2003

[pknopp]

COURT REINSTATES MOST OF TEXAS' NEW ABORTION RULES

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that most of Texas' tough new abortion restrictions can take effect immediately -- a decision that means a third of the state's clinics that perform the procedure won't be able to do so starting as soon as Friday.

Court Reinstates Most of Texas' New Abortion Rules

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by pknopp

COURT REINSTATES MOST OF TEXAS' NEW ABORTION RULES

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that most of Texas' tough new abortion restrictions can take effect immediately -- a decision that means a third of the state's clinics that perform the procedure won't be able to do so starting as soon as Friday.

Court Reinstates Most of Texas' New Abortion Rules

I told the *******s and none believed me. This hasn't even made it to SCOTUS yet.

U.S. Supreme Court has held that having "the incidental effect of making it more difficult or more expensive to procure an abortion cannot be enough to invalidate" a law that serves a valid purpose, "one not designed to strike at the right itself."