Posted on 07/01/2012 6:19:32 PM PDT by Brown Deer
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Mississippi law that could shut down the only abortion clinic in the state.
U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan in Jackson issued a temporary restraining order the day the new law took effect.
He set a July 11 hearing to determine whether to block the law for a longer time.
"Though the debate over abortion continues, there exists legal precedent the court must follow," Jordan wrote.
The law requires anyone performing abortions at the state's only clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. Such privileges can be difficult to obtain, and the clinic contends the mandate is designed to put it out of business. A clinic spokeswoman, Betty Thompson, has said the two physicians who do abortions there are OB-GYNs who travel from other states.
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Let him enforce it.
I’m #2, and I like your post as well. But I’m only going to say it once.
We still leave our doors and windows open on cool nights. We do have cental air, though, and I get excited when I find bread at 2/$5.
Better times are ahead, but we’ll never stuff the federal genie back into the bottle.
What ‘legal precedent’?
Says who?
The government that allows abortion is the government that is no longer legitimate.
Way to go, “judge”.
Oh yes, all that and much, much more. one of 4 or 5.
Abortion should be illegal
Abortion should be illegal
Or for docs that have serious disciplinary issues on their records
Or for docs that have serious disciplinary issues on their records
The hearing July 11th, how many days before decision, even if the law is upheld how many more deaths?
Further daily confirmation that the game is rigged. We’re playing the political equivalent of three card monte.
America was once a safe, productive, family and church oriented country, and America was good. Today, you're lucky if you're allowed to be born. If you are lucky enough to be born, you have to spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.
Right now, the government has regulations on everything..... but our individual bodies, and they're even trying to take that away from us. It's the only truly free thing we have left. After that, they control it all, and they're doing a horrible job of managing it.
The American people did better on their own.
Clearly those who advocate the murder of the most innocent among us have a list of judges they can rely upon to stay a court order or halt the implementation of a law that restricts infanticide.
I find it curious that the few pieces of legislation that have been passed that support the sanctity of life are stifled before the ink is dry on the signed law. If a law is passed that restricts pro-life activity or promotes abortion, it is enacted immediately.
Lifetime tenure for Federal and Supreme Court judges places all too much power in the hands of political partisans.
EODGUY
We all know what “temporary” means to a federal judge.
Mississippi has been sick of Washington sinse the 1850’s.
As for this particular act, the federal judge needs to mind his own business. What Mississippians do in Mississippi is none of Washington’s business. The State of Mississippi gains its authority directly from the People of Mississippi in their Constitution not Washington D.C.
Going to need to be more picky in your words there, Under the Federal Constitution, Washington does not have illegitimate say one way or the other on the matter of “abortion” just like its counter part murder, that is a matter concerning the domestic lives of the people of each State.
This is why The Federal judge has no illegitimate business saying one thing or the other about the Mississippi act. This is a matter for Mississippians and their Constitution, and I trust the vast majority of them have no problem what so ever.
My point is wider.
No government, on either state, local, federal or intergalactic level can allow abortion, or any other form of murder, and itself stay legitimate, regardless of how various citizens vote and what the Constitution says, with all respect for the latter.
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