Posted on 10/23/2013 3:40:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A federal court challenge to new limits on abortions in Texas may hinge on complicated legal questions created by a myriad of U.S. Supreme Court rulings over the past decade on when a state may ignore medical considerations and limit the procedure, attorneys in the case argued Wednesday.
Planned Parenthood, other abortion providers and the Center for Reproductive Rights have challenged the new law, which gained national attention when Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis mounted a nearly 13-hour filibuster against it in June that succeeding in forcing Gov. Rick Perry to call the Republican-led Legislature back for a second special session just to pass it. Davis now is running for governor on a womens rights platform, and with Perry retiring, her likely Republican opponent will be Attorney General Greg Abbott, whose office was tasked with defending the law during the two-day hearing.
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Oh, wait. That's only for the laws they make....
Judges need to butt out
what limits?
Will of the people be damned.
But it’s the law! It’s settled!
Just de-fund every abortion “provider” and they’ll crumble without such a law.
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