Sanity at last.

One more down, how many more to go?


rocktivity

The TeapubliKKKans want to have this 'personhood' law on the books that would say any fetal object was a human. Not so, ask any reputable OBGYN. They're nuts, but worse...they try to push this insanity that women cannot make their own decisions concerning their own bodies and their family planning. Glad it was stopped, but they'll be coming back for more, you can count on it.

16 April 2014 Last updated at 14:50 ET
Judge overturns tough North Dakota abortion law

A US federal judge has overthrown a North Dakota law banning abortion after the foetus' heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks in some cases.

District Judge Daniel Hovland found the law "invalid and unconstitutional" on Wednesday.

The North Dakota abortion law was considered the most restrictive in the nation.

The state attorney general has not yet announced whether he plans to appeal against the decision.

"The United States Supreme Court has spoken and has unequivocally said no state may deprive a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy at a point prior to viability," Judge Hovland wrote in his ruling.

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27058552

This is fabulous...

Not only is it fabulous, but we have THINKING judge here! He understands what Roe v. Wade accomplished!

We shouldn't still be fighting this fight in 2014, tho. It's insane!

which is why we have to keep fighting them.

We need to rebuild the system of state mental hospitals. Keeping the crazies off the street and out of politics make life more worth living.

it's pulsing tissue along a primitive blood vessel, more like an earthworm "heart" than a human one. Eventually that tissue will grow into a four chamber heart but at six weeks, a heart is just not there.

I'm delighted the courts are still pushing back against these medically ignorant zealots.

will start beating. Beating cells? No heart at all, just beating.

probably familiar with the concept of temporary restraining orders and permanent restraining orders. But noting that the judge "...permanently struck down North Dakota’s six-week abortion ban ...." implies that the legal battle is over and [my description] that we can go about our business secure in the knowledge that the abortion wars have ended.

It hasn't and unilaterally standing-down would be unwise. This case may be complete as far as this judge's involvement, concerned, but not necessarily. There are two levels of appeals remaining and either the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals or SCOTUS could instruct Judge Hovland reconsider any aspect of his ruling. The spectrum of options they have range from reversal to dismissal with .all sorts of things in between.

I think the right will keep it up until the SCOTUS hears another case, in the hopes that this SCOTUS will agree with the right.

That is exactly what they do with the IRS rule about partisan politics from the pulpit and the tax deduction. They send films to the IRS every year, kind of daring the IRS to take away their deduction so that they get to challenge the regulation on First Amendment grounds. At least, that is what Pastor Parsley on TV.