Appeals court strikes down NC abortion provision

WRAL ^ | 12.22.2014 | Matthew Burns

[Morgana]

Richmond, Va. — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declared as unconstitutional a North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to show a woman an ultrasound and describe the images in detail four hours before she can have an abortion.

The decision upholds a lower-court ruling from January and could send the issue to the Supreme Court.

"This compelled speech, even though it is a regulation of the medical profession, is ideological in intent and in kind," the 4th Circuit judges wrote in their 37-page opinion. "The means used by North Carolina extend well beyond those states have customarily employed to effectuate their undeniable interests in ensuring informed consent and in protecting the sanctity of life in all its phases."

The law requires abortion providers performing an ultrasound to place the image in the woman’s line of sight. The provider would then be required to describe the embryo or fetus in detail, even if the woman asked the doctor not to, and to offer the woman the opportunity to hear the fetal heartbeat.

[tflabo]

"This compelled speech, even though it is a regulation of the medical profession, is ideological in intent and in kind,"

Oh so ultrasound is now 'compelled speech'. Cant the same be said of ObamaCare? Twisted leftist triangulation to protect their own 'compelled' ideology. They can all GTH as the baby killing liars they are.

[laweeks]

Wouldn't want anyone to see who is eventually being beheaded and dismembered even worse than our pagan religion-of-peace bastards.

While the savage pagans behead one or two humans each month, we savagely dismember, behead, and rip apart helpless innocent babies 3,300 times EACH DAY.

Shame, shame on nasty on ultrasound!

[BwanaNdege]

...is ideological in intent and in kind,...

How does this description differ from that applicable to the 14th Amendment?

"Ideological" - and what is the problem with that?

Ideologies are systems of abstracted meaning applied to public matters, thus making this concept central to politics. Implicitly, in societies that distinguish between public and private life, every political or economic tendency entails an ideology, whether or not it is propounded as an explicit system of thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology

[VanDeKoik]

“The law requires abortion providers performing an ultrasound to place the image in the woman’s line of sight. The provider would then be required to describe the embryo or fetus in detail, even if the woman asked the doctor not to, and to offer the woman the opportunity to hear the fetal heartbeat.”

Heaven forbid the dumb piece of s**t actually comes face to face with the person they are about to dismember.

[SoFloFreeper]

See there, states? You don’t get to govern yourselves. You must get permission from Big Daddy DC before you make laws.

Now bow your knee like all good slaves.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The author of the opinion:

Wilkinson, James Harvie III
Born 1944 in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on January 30, 1984, to a seat vacated by John Decker Butzner, Jr.. Confirmed by the Senate on August 9, 1984, and received commission on August 13, 1984. Served as chief judge, 1996-2003.

Education:
Yale University, B.A., 1967
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1972

Professional Career:
U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, 1970
Law clerk, Hon. Lewis F. Powell, Supreme Court of the United States, 1972-1973
Faculty, University of Virginia School of Law, 1973-1978, 1983; associate professor, 1973-1978; professor, 1983
Editorial page editor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 1978-1981
Deputy assistant attorney general, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1982-1983

[Lurking Libertarian]

The decision.

[kitkat]

“The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declared as unconstitutional a North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to show a woman an ultrasound and describe the images in detail four hours before she can have an abortion.”

Why doesn’t the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just pass a law making it legal for parents to kill their baby AFTER IT’S BORN? Then maybe the dumbbutts would realize that they’re also killing a human being when they have an abortion.