01 June 2004

You have control of your bodies again, ladies

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MSNBC Breaking News
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U.S. judge blocks partial-birth abortion ban.


From the AP.

By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Tuesday declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringes on a woman's right to choose.

The ruling applies to the nation's 900 or so Planned Parenthood clinics and their doctors, who perform roughly half of all abortions in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton's ruling came in one of three lawsuits challenging the legislation President Bush signed last year.

"The act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion," she wrote.

Federal judges in New York and Nebraska also heard challenges to the law earlier this year but have yet to rule.


Read the full story here. I'm not for using abortion as a remedy for chronic pregnancy, if you know what I mean, but the choices are between the woman, the baby's father, and her doctor. No one else.

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