Federal judge blocks Arkansas 12-week abortion ban

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas [official website] on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of a law law banning abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy. US District Judge Susan Webber Wright granted a motion for preliminary injunction [AP report] against the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act [Act 301, PDF; materials], which bans abortions "of an unborn human individual whose heartbeat has been detected ... and is twelve (12) weeks or greater gestation." The...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-12-week-abortion-ban.php

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