Texas Abortion Law Struck Down

[Minimalist]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...932994.php

AUSTIN – A federal judge has struck down a key provision of Texas' new abortion law, blocking a statute set to go into effect Tuesday that required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel, in a 26-page order issued Monday, ruled the admitting privileges requirement is unconstitutional and poses an undue burden on women seeking an abortion.

The statute "does not bear a rational relationship to the legitimate right of the State in preserving and promoting fetal life or a woman's health and, in any event, places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus and is thus an undue burden to her," Yeakel wrote. "The court concludes that admitting privileges have no rational relationship to improved patient care."

Let the shrieking commence from the jesus shits!

[Cinjin]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...932994.php

AUSTIN – A federal judge has struck down a key provision of Texas' new abortion law, blocking a statute set to go into effect Tuesday that required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel, in a 26-page order issued Monday, ruled the admitting privileges requirement is unconstitutional and poses an undue burden on women seeking an abortion.

The statute "does not bear a rational relationship to the legitimate right of the State in preserving and promoting fetal life or a woman's health and, in any event, places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus and is thus an undue burden to her," Yeakel wrote. "The court concludes that admitting privileges have no rational relationship to improved patient care."

Let the shrieking commence from the jesus shits!

Strike one for the good guys. Sometimes EVIL fails.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Innit amazing how much conservatives yak on and on about personal freedom, then do everything they can to curtail it?

Boru

[Minimalist]

Yeah....well.....call me a cynic but I think the absofuckinglutely last thing these fascist bastards want is for the abortion debate to go away. It would play hell with their fund-raising and it is a sure fire means of getting their base all worked up. The issue is very important to them and I can't help but think that they never want to lose it.

The "morning after pill" could virtually eliminate the need for abortions and it scares the living piss out of republicunts.

[Zazzy]

But:

the court upheld a second measure, requiring doctors to use a particular drug protocol in nonsurgical, medication-induced abortions that doctors called outdated and too restrictive.

from NYT

[freedomfromforum]

Yeah....well.....call me a cynic...

You're a cynic. Where's my

[Minimalist]

Courts in North Dakota and Oklahoma have struck down laws imposing the earlier drug protocol for medication abortions, but one remains in effect in Ohio.

It's already heading for the appellate courts.

[Ryantology]

Innit amazing how much conservatives yak on and on about personal freedom, then do everything they can to curtail it?

Boru

On the contrary, they believe that everybody should have the personal freedom to think, believe and behave exactly the way they want.

Might help out Wendy Davis in her gubernatorial run next year.

[Doubting Thomas]

Obviously another "liberal activist judge." Funny how when judges issue decisions conservatives agree with, they're never called "activist judges."

I have to agree, though, that Republicans would actually hate to see abortion criminalized. Then they'd have to find another perennial issue to run on. It's a double-edged sword, though, because much of the country sees their anti-abortion stance as being misogynist.