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elleng

(130,908 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 01:38 PM Jul 2013

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks North Dakota's New Abortion Law.

Source: nyt/reuters

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked North Dakota's new abortion law, which bans procedures to end pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks.

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland granted a preliminary injunction on the law, the most restrictive in the country, which was to go into effect August 1. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by Red River Women's Clinic, the only abortion clinic in the state.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/07/22/us/22reuters-usa-abortion-northdakota.html?hp

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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks North Dakota's New Abortion Law. (Original Post) elleng Jul 2013 OP

K&R MadrasT Jul 2013 #1

Laws like these seem to be the only legislative accomplishments Mz Pip Jul 2013 #2

I'll be honest - I'm terrified of these lawsuits sweetloukillbot Jul 2013 #4

If Roe v Wade was ever going to be overturned, it would have been by now. mac56 Jul 2013 #5

I used to think that Mz Pip Jul 2013 #8

I'm with you, Sweet PlanetBev Jul 2013 #6

This and the 40 or so pointless "repeal ObamaCare" bills. alp227 Jul 2013 #7

Good. n/t SoapBox Jul 2013 #3

Good n/t azurnoir Jul 2013 #9

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 02:00 PM

Jul 2013

Thank you for posting this news. Glad to hear the judge imposed the block.

Mz Pip

(27,445 posts)

2. Laws like these seem to be the only legislative accomplishments

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 02:04 PM

Jul 2013

that the rwers managed to accomplish. Sad and scary. Do they do anything else but poke around in women's health care?

sweetloukillbot

(11,023 posts)

4. I'll be honest - I'm terrified of these lawsuits

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 03:07 PM

Jul 2013

What these legislatures are doing is wrong, but I only see this going all the way to the Supreme Court and ending w/ Roe V. Wade being overturned.
I don't know what the answer is, apart from replacing a couple Supremes.

mac56

(17,567 posts)

5. If Roe v Wade was ever going to be overturned, it would have been by now.

Reply to sweetloukillbot (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 03:20 PM

Jul 2013

It's too valuable to the RW as a way to stir up the base.

It will not go away.

Mz Pip

(27,445 posts)

8. I used to think that

Reply to mac56 (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 06:03 PM

Jul 2013

But the true zealots have taken over. They want Roe overturned and if they can't do it they will settle for shutting clinics, whittling away at the reproductive freedoms that remain. These idiots are not just anti abortion, they are anti contraception, anti education, anti information.

They are capable of doing plenty of damage without overturning Roe.

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)

6. I'm with you, Sweet

Reply to sweetloukillbot (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 03:50 PM

Jul 2013

This is coming at us like an avalanche. It wouldn't take anything for the court to take one of these cases and either gut Roe v Wade or overturn it completely.

This court has proven it's not shy about overturning laws that have stood on the books a long time. Look at Citizens United. The Fascist Five took a narrow case, expanded it and overturned 100 years of precedent.

People who are saying that they will keep Roe around for a wedge issue are fooling themselves and everyone else. They are dying to get it back into the states. If we don't get one of the Right-Wing justices off the courts now, we're dead.