The Supreme Court of the US has declined to hear an appeal of a May 2013 ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that stated the Arizona law that restricted abortions to no later than the 20th week is unconstitutional.
The issue at hand was apparently that the Arizona law was unnecessarily restrictive and in fact forced a cessation of the right to an abortion much earlier than it should, due to the way they measured gestation (it would have put the cutoff at nearly two weeks earlier than similar laws in other states that put the cutoff at 20 weeks as well).
I'm glad the SCOTUS declined to hear the case; I hope it's a wake-up call to people suffering these sorts of restrictions in other states. File an appeal; get the ball rolling! The only way to defeat these restrictive laws is to fight them.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Arizona's appeal of a lower-court ruling that declared unconstitutional a state law banning abortions beginning at 20 weeks of fetal gestation, meaning the restrictive measure is struck down. The Arizona law, signed by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in 2012, had been considered one of the toughest in the United States in imposing limits on abortion. A May 2013 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco invalidated the law, saying it violated "unalterably clear" legal precedents. The high court justices' decision not to review the state's appeal means the lower-court ruling remains intact. |
The issue at hand was apparently that the Arizona law was unnecessarily restrictive and in fact forced a cessation of the right to an abortion much earlier than it should, due to the way they measured gestation (it would have put the cutoff at nearly two weeks earlier than similar laws in other states that put the cutoff at 20 weeks as well).
I'm glad the SCOTUS declined to hear the case; I hope it's a wake-up call to people suffering these sorts of restrictions in other states. File an appeal; get the ball rolling! The only way to defeat these restrictive laws is to fight them.
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