A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Indiana’s restrictive new abortion law from taking effect Friday.
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued a 31-page order in favor of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which sought to block House Enrolled Act 1337.
The law signed by Gov. Mike Pence this year would have prohibited abortions because of genetic abnormality, race, sex or ancestry, and would mandate disposal of an aborted fetus only through burial or cremation. Before its passage, opponents warned the bill raised an unconstitutional burden to the right to abortion and that its enactment would be met with a federal lawsuit.
Pratt wrote Planned Parenthood “has clearly demonstrated that the anti-discrimination provisions and the information dissemination provision should be enjoined pending resolution of this litigation. It is likely to succeed on the merits of its challenges to these provisions as the anti-discrimination provisions directly contravene well-established law that precludes a state from prohibiting a woman from electing to have an abortion prior to fetal viability. Similarly, the information dissemination provision is likely unconstitutional as it requires abortion providers to convey false information regarding the anti-discrimination provisions to their patients. PPINK faces irreparable harm of a significantly greater magnitude if these provisions are not enjoined than that faced by the State.
“Second, PPINK has persuasively shown that the fetal tissue disposition provisions do not further a legitimate state interest and thus are likely unconstitutional. This, when combined with the fact that the balance of harms weighs slightly in PPINK’s favor, leads to the conclusion that PPINK is also entitled to an injunction with respect to these provisions.â€
This story will be updated.
“In continuing moves to reflect the transition to the general election, Donald Trump today modified past positions on trade and abortion to attract more voters to the Trump Campaign: blue-collar working class voters and a renewed initiative to cut into Hillary Clinton’s support among women nationally.”
“I’ve talked to my people about this, and we’re gonna change the way we do business folks. We are gonna put trade tariffs on every import coming into the United States cause we want those products made in America. And women have been suffering too much folks, no more of this undue burden on women seeking choices with their reproductive rights. I love women, and they shouldn’t be forced to suffer any undue burdens.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Walton_Pratt
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Pressanykey posted this link as “racist code” that the Judge is an African American woman, and PAK wanted to point that out.
CCO, your little blog has become 100% irrelevant allowing DB’s type of posts to stand.
It’s accurate. Every. Single. Person. Reading. This. Knows. It.
This forum is brave enough to withstand your disingenuous attempt to deny that DISAFFECTED.
Nice work Judge Pratt. What is the law is the law. RvE stands and will be respected despite those, mostly males on this site, who do not seem to get it. You do not control every woman’s body. If you want to have a child have a sex change surgery performed and go for it. You could be a “first”. I will also comment that every Catholic woman I know practices birth control in spite of what their religion demands and many have abortions. There is a great difference between a cluster of cells and a viable close-to-term fetus. Most women know their capacity for handling and raising a child in their lives. It is their decision to make given all the facts and no one’s other than theirs.
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