(TX) Appeals court allows abortion restrictions to begin
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Source: Houston Chronicle
AUSTIN _ A federal appeals court ruling Thursday gives Texas the green light to start enforcing a new abortion restriction that a lower court judge said posed an undue burden on women.
The decision by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was a huge victory for Attorney General Greg Abbott and Texas abortion opponents, temporarily lifting an injunction that prevented the provisions from going into effect. The provision requires abortion doctors to gain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled the admitting privileges provision unconstitutional, saying it posed an undue burden on women has no "rational relationship to improved patient care."
But a federal three-judge panel in New Orleans on Thursday found Yeakel's finding of a lack of rational relationship "is one step removed from repudiating the longstanding recognition by the Supreme Court that a State may constitutionally require that only a physician may perform an abortion." The court, in a 20-page opinion, also said the provision does not "impose a substantial obstacle to abortions."
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Appeals-court-grants-stay-on-abortion-ruling-4944605.php
See also:
AP, Court reinstates most of Texas' new abortion rules
Austin American-Statesman, Appeals court lifts ban on Texas abortion law
And Think Progress reports all 3 judges are George W. Bush nominees.
jsr
(7,712 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)it can be 6 to 3, but this will be it.
If I am wrong, then women's healthcare in Texas will will be set back more than 100 years
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)that the law is 'to protect the health and safety of Texas women,' then there is nothing that you won't lie about.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)GOP to America: "F/ck you, women. F/ck you, nonwhites. F/ck you, non-1%'ers. F/ck you, non-fetuses. F/ck you, "environment." F/ck you, GLBT people. F/ck the non-crazy. F/ck the Constitution and f/ck the Bill of Rights. Hell, f/ck the 20th Century. F/ck, f/ck, f/ck!"
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)on all of us, but they despise any figure or symbol of progress to the point of frothing hysteria - see the right-wing reaction to Wendy Davis.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Rstrstx
(1,393 posts)I'm shocked, shocked I tell you
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to get an en banc review of an emergency hearing (probably not) or petition the Supreme Court to block the 5th circuit's emergency ruling?
gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Another state that is basically eliminating women's choice.