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Another blow for the people’s choice

July 14, 2011 by Jennifer Derwey 1 Comment

This from the NY Times,

In three new rulings, federal judges in different states have acted to block immediate enforcement of measures that restrict abortion rights and women’s access to affordable contraception, lifesaving cancer screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. These rulings are important victories for women’s health and reproductive rights. […]

On July 1, Judge Carlos Murguia, a federal district judge in Kansas, blocked immediate enforcement of a new Kansas licensing law and health department regulations imposing extensive, medically unnecessary requirements on the state’s three remaining abortion providers — like mandating 50 square feet of storage space for janitorial supplies — with the obvious goal of shutting them down.

While these rulings are preliminary, each is a determination that enforcing the law would cause irreparable harm and that the plaintiffs are likely to prevail at trial. They do not, however, address other threats to women’s health. Those include the slashing of state support for family-planning services by governors like Chris Christie of New Jersey, and attacks from Congress like the bill Republicans pushed through the House in May that would use the nation’s tax system as a weapon to end abortion insurance coverage in the private market.

Still, these rulings serve as a reminder that courts have a vital role to play in blocking the extreme anti-abortion, anti-family-planning movement accelerating in the states and in Washington.

Again, no one is against cancer screening, and no one is against treatment for STDs, but the majority of the people in these states don’t want an abortion/contraception minded agenda to go unchecked simply because an organization also offers these positive services.

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  1. Brigid says

    July 14, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Let’s hope in a few years, a similar article will read:
    “While these rulings are preliminary, each is a determination that NOT enforcing the law would cause irreparable harm to the unborn and that the plaintiffs are not likely to prevail at trial.”

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