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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: A Wyoming judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the state's abortion ban
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-consider-allowing-abortions-resume-050956494.htmlGarnet Henderson
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BREAKING: A Wyoming judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the state's total abortion ban.
The state's much-publicized medication abortion ban doesn't go into effect until this summer, so abortion service should be able to resume immediately.
The legislature overstepped in attempting to legislate away a constitutional right, she said, violating the separation of powers. The court needs to further investigate constitutional issues at playnamely whether abortion is or isn't health careso TRO is granted.
Judge says from the bench that the TRO is effective immediately. Short written order to come by 5pm mountain time with a longer, more detailed order to come.
This is the same judge who blocked the Wyoming trigger ban from going into effect this summer. The constitutional issues are pretty much identical here so this was the expected outcome!
And in the fun facts department, the judge is the daughter-in-law of my childhood orthodontist. Hows that for small town
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BREAKING: A Wyoming judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the state's total abortion ban.
The state's much-publicized medication abortion ban doesn't go into effect until this summer, so abortion service should be able to resume immediately.
The legislature overstepped in attempting to legislate away a constitutional right, she said, violating the separation of powers. The court needs to further investigate constitutional issues at playnamely whether abortion is or isn't health careso TRO is granted.
Judge says from the bench that the TRO is effective immediately. Short written order to come by 5pm mountain time with a longer, more detailed order to come.
This is the same judge who blocked the Wyoming trigger ban from going into effect this summer. The constitutional issues are pretty much identical here so this was the expected outcome!
And in the fun facts department, the judge is the daughter-in-law of my childhood orthodontist. Hows that for small town
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BREAKING: A Wyoming judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the state's abortion ban (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Mar 2023
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How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2023
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,231 posts)1. How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access
This makes me smile
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https://boltsmag.org/abortion-access-and-measures-against-obamacare-ohio-wyoming/
A decade ago, when conservatives were attacking President Barack Obamas Affordable Care Act as government encroachment in health care, they worked to amend state constitutions around the country to affirm a broad right for people to control their own medical decisions.
Each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions, reads section 38(a) of the Wyoming constitutions Declaration of Rights, under the header Right of healthcare access. The provision was placed on Wyomings ballot by state lawmakers and approved by voters in 2012; voters saw ballot language that described the measure as preserving this right from undue governmental infringement.
Now these anti-ACA provisionsand their broad affirmations of a right to decidehave turned into an unlikely weapon in progressives fight against restrictions on abortion.
Reproductive rights advocates in Wyoming have sued to strike down the states abortion ban, saying that this right to make . . . health care decisions protects abortion access. A lawsuit in Ohio has made the same case using a similar provision in Ohios constitution that was adopted by voters in 2011.
If you have an amendment that says you have the freedom to choose your health care, then thats going to apply to all health care: thats the argument being made, says David Cohen, a professor of law at Drexel University who studies constitutions and abortion. Its like, you used broad words, and these broad words have certain meanings, and were just applying those meanings to this context.
In both Ohio and Wyoming, these claims have seen early success in courts.
A trial court in Ohio issued a preliminary injunction against the states abortion restrictions in October. The judge found that the Health Care Freedom Amendment bolsters the Ohio Constitutions protection of liberty and personal autonomy and reinforces that these protections extend to Ohioans the right to make decisions about their own bodiesincluding the fundamental right to make a decision as private and as central to a persons bodily integrity as the decision to have an abortion.
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(8,251 posts)2. The irony LOL