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Courts to Hear Three Abortion-Ban Challenges
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Mar 27, 2004 05:10pm |
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| Media | News Service - Associated Press |
| News Date | Saturday, March 27, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Courts to Hear Three Abortion-Ban Challenges
The Honolulu Advertiser
A historic legal battle over abortion begins in courtrooms coast to coast Monday as three federal judges take up requests to derail the first substantial congressional limitation on abortion since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The simultaneous litigation centers on legislation President Bush signed last year banning a type of late-term abortion: what lawmakers defined as "partial-birth" abortion and what doctors call "intact dilation and extraction." The three trials will be filled with impassioned arguments on whether the law violates constitutional rights, as well as graphic, highly technical and conflicting testimony from medical experts. The National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and a handful of doctors sued in San Francisco, New York and Lincoln, Neb., to overturn the law. They say its language could criminalize more common types of abortion and could be a step toward abolishing abortion in the United States. |
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