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GYN: Judge Stops Partial Birth Abortion Ban From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Thu Aug 26 12:09:04 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DuBose, Terry: "FW: breast cancer" Previous message: Douglas Krell: "Anyone in Cocoa Beach Florida?" This just in ... NEW YORK -- In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception. U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey in Manhattan said the Supreme Court has made it clear that a law that prohibits the performance of a particular abortion procedure must include an exception to preserve a woman's life and health. Casey issued the ruling two months after hearing closing arguments in the case. A San Francisco judge has already declared the 2003 law unconstitutional, and a judge in Lincoln, Neb., is still considering the question. The three judges suspended the ban while they held the trials. The law is aimed at stopping a procedure, usually performed during the second trimester of pregnancy, in which a fetus is partly delivered, its skull punctured and its brain removed, often by suction. Opponents, including Republicans in Congress who pushed for the ban, call the procedure "partial-birth abortion," but abortion rights groups and many doctors refer to it as "intact dilation and evacuation." http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-partial-birth-abortion,0,5997654,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines art -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: DuBose, Terry: "FW: breast cancer" Previous message: Douglas Krell: "Anyone in Cocoa Beach Florida?"

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