Posted on 06/28/2022 7:46:28 AM PDT by bitt
A similar ruling was issued Monday in Louisiana, another state with an abortion "trigger law."
udge in Utah has granted a restraining order that will block for 14 days the state's abortion "trigger law."
Judge Andrew Stone of the 3rd District granted Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah's request for a temporary injunction following an emergency hearing Monday.
Utah's abortion trigger law was passed in 2020 and was contingent upon Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, which the court did Friday.
The law bans abortions in the state with exceptions for rape or incest, the health and safety of the mother, or fetal viability.
Also on Monday, a judge in Louisiana, which also has an abortion trigger law, issued a similar ruling.
About a dozen other U.S. states have also passed trigger laws similar to Louisiana and Utah's.
In Utah, Judge Stone said in making the decision: "The immediate effects that will occur outweigh any policy interest of the state in stopping abortions immediately. Doctors here are threatened with felonies. Affected women are deprived of safe, local medical treatments to terminate pregnancies."
The office for Utah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox said the governor won't comment for now on the litigation but will watch carefully as the legal process unfurls.
Judges will now control abortion
I am so damn tired of these judges and their liberal/leftist rulings.
The judge is out of order. He does NOT have the power to overturn the USSC decision or the laws of the state...not even for a moment.
Judges who show contempt for the Supreme Court should be summarily removed from office.
Affected women are deprived of safe, local medical treatments to terminate pregnancies."
Is that like wearing your seat belt when you chase someone down and run them over? Safety in murder.
Amazing Planned Parenthood is suing to protect 3% of its business..
Maybe the 97% is baby parts from the 3%..
The pro life folks should start noisy, but peaceful protests at their homes. It’s the democratic process in action, as we all learned in the last few weeks.
Democrats were quick to accuse those in SCOTUS of being ‘activist’ judges, but these in the states stopping the ‘trigger’ laws are the real activist judges. What in current laws or in the state or U.S. constitution are they using to justify their blocking of the new state laws? I guess when it comes to activist judges, it’s okay when they rule for the liberal side of things.
I guess they will add a check box to the medical form: We’re you raped (YES / NO)?
“The immediate effects that will occur outweigh any policy interest of the state in stopping abortions immediately. Doctors here are threatened with felonies. Affected women are deprived of safe, local medical treatments to terminate pregnancies.”
Perhaps a legitimate opinion, only one problem.
It is NOT WITHIN HIS FREAKIN LEGAL PERVUE!
Stupid, black-robed turkeys.
It’s GOOD to have stooges everywhere to stop abortion laws and prevent clean elections.
“the 97% is baby parts”
If it’s not a baby they are killing then why are they selling off body parts as human tissue?
Yes, that's a risk contract-killers take.
Affected women are deprived of safe, local medical treatments to terminate pregnancies.
Baby-killing is neither safe nor medical.
The judge is a perverted liar.
The legislatures in question should tell these “judges” to go to hell and ignore their empty proclamations.
‘Doctors here are threatened with felonies.’
It is not just the doctors that must be charged with felonies but also the clinic workers, nurses, the woman who seeks the abortion and anyone who is aware of an abortion occurring.
great point
So, do these judges replace legislators, the voice of the people? Hopefully their rulings are overruled as political instead of legally based.
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