FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS ENFORCEMENT OF TEXAS ABORTION LAW

[BluegrassStateBlues]

Breaking News @BreakingNews

Federal judge blocks enforcement of Texas abortion law, says restrictions are unconstitutional - @becca_aa, @jgrovum

AUSTIN, Texas -- AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled on Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled.

District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday that the regulations violated the rights of abortion doctors to do what they think is best for their patients and would unreasonably restrict a woman's access to abortion clinics.

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers brought the lawsuit, arguing that a requirement that doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic would force the closure of a third of the clinics in Texas. They also complained that requiring doctors to follow the Food and Drug Administration's original label for an abortion-inducing drug would deny women the benefit of recent advances in medical science.

The Texas attorney general's office argued that the law protects women and the life of the fetus. Attorney General Greg Abbott was expected to file an emergency appeal of Yeakel's order to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/texas-abortion-unconstitutional_n_4171087.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

[Judi Lynn]

1. Jeez, BluegrassStateBlues. This IS good news. Thank you. n/t

[Sophiegirl]

3. A link I found...

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/texas/article/Fed-judge-Texas-abortion-limits-unconstitutional-4932989.php

Hurray!!!

Edit: oops...redundant. But still great news!!!

[dmr]

2. YES!

Thank you for posting this!

[MineralMan]

4. Good news. Take that, Texas!

[11 Bravo]

5. Rick Perry responded, "There are three things wrong with this ruling. One ...

it's contrary to the will of the people. Two, it's judicial activism. And three, ummm ... ahhh FUCK, I did it again!

[hamsterjill]

30. Priceless!!!

n/t

[Lobo27]

6. Are these judges appointed for life?

Cause I'd hate see someone with a sensible mind, recalled or w/e.

[iandhr]

10. Since its federal yes

[kentauros]

29. And according to Juanita Jean,

this one was appointed by GWB.

So not only will he be an activist judge to the conservatives, but a traitor to boot.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, BluegrassStateBlues.

[ismnotwasm]

8. Excellent news

And, as an aside---Go you incredible, awesome kickass Texas Democrats!

[hamsterjill]

31. +1

Many people working hard down here!!! Many people!

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

[spanone]

11. k&r...

[Dopers_Greed]

12. K&R

Suck it Perry

[bluestate10]

13. I can see the right yelling "activist Judge" now. They seem to forget Scalia, the

biggest activist Judge in history.

[sheshe2]

14. K&R!

Unlike the Mississippi case, Yeakel's order is a final decision, setting the groundwork for the 5th Circuit to review the merits of the law, not just an injunction against it.

The proposed restrictions were among the toughest in the nation and gained notoriety when Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis launched a nearly 13-hour filibuster against them in June. The law also bans abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and beginning in October 2014 requires doctors to perform all abortions in surgical facilities.

Take that Rick Perry. Oh and a note to Cruz about Wendy Davis, take a lesson. That was one hell of a filibuster for the health of the Women of Texas!

Great thread, Bluegrass.

[freshwest]

15. Welcome GOP to your new polling place:

It didn't have to happen this way, but you asked for it.



No, I am not going to be nice.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. !

Very exciting to see a real legal scholar do the right thing!!!

[Heather MC]

16. I Wish, they would stop calling them "Abortion Clinics"

They are Women's Health Clinics.

I hate when we use Rethuglican terminology. It's like they win when we use their vocabularly to describe things that are important to us that they want to destroy.

ObamaCare is the ACA
Entitlement,is Social Care Services And does not include ss or Medicare

and
Abortion Clinics is Women's Health clincs

I hate when the media adopts rightwing vocab as well

[TexasTowelie]

17. +1

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. excellent point. I prefer "women's life and safety" rather than "choice", too. n/t

[Cerridwen]

24. I've read they're called hospitals in Europe.

As in, not separate facilities but part of health care as a whole.

Thank you for posting this.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. +1

Especially since, for the majority of the women who use them, they are only Women's Health clinics.

[Rozlee]

18. Excellent! Thwarted again, Governor Goodhair.

Bastard is still withholding Extended Medicaid for millions of Texans and trying to limit the amount of money spent on preemie births. A normal delivery costs around $2,500 while a baby with care in NICU runs a bill up to $45,000. Seems Texas Rethugs don't want Medicaid paying for it. Some pro-life. Republicans hate women and children.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

19. Fantastic news,

a piece at a time.

[ancianita]

22. That judge better be packin'. Texas woman haters don't cotton to letting activist judges live.

Will they take revenge? I don't know. But accidents happen. I don't want any judges suffering from vigilantism in this country. Several gun owning people I know -- one from Ohio, one from Florida and one from Texas -- have outright claimed that "activist judges" need killing. They're nobodies, but they claim they're networked. I've told them that they're criminal to advocate such things, but they just laugh at me.

[0rganism]

23. any read on the 5th circuit appeals court?

How stacked with dominionists is it?

[cali]

25. Actually, only one piece of this package of restrictions was struck down.

[Bunnahabhain]

26. Good for this judge

States need to stop passing unconstitutional laws.

[giftedgirl77]

27. K&R...

and another one bites the dust.

[cali]

34. no, the law didn't bite the dust. one piece of it did

Here's what didn't:

The drug protocol piece which endangers women was challenged but the judge upheld it.

The piece that requires the unnecessary and onerous physical plant requirements to be the same as ambulatory surgical centers wasn't challenged. It goes into effect in 2014 and if not challenged or if challenged and upheld, it will close most TX abortion clinics

the 20 week cutoff date for almost all abortions.

Lots of very bad law still intact.

[giftedgirl77]

36. Yes, I'm aware of that.

I'm also aware of the fact that it will most likely still be appealed to the higher courts.

Stop policing other people's threads. There is a reason ppl choose not to post in yours.

[cali]

38. lol. policing? I'm posting in a thread, dear. Just like YOU

and guess what? Not only do lots of people post in threads that I start, but many of those threads get lots and lots of recs and end up on the top of the greatest list.

that must irritate you.

[cali]

46. welcome to du. have fun.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

42. Thanks.

[giftedgirl77]

43. No problem. Cheers!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

32. uh-oh....time for Texas to secede again!

[malaise]

33. K & R

This is huge

[liberal_at_heart]

35. I knew it would be shot down in the courts. That is very good news.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

37. great news! keep it kicked~!

[Javaman]

39. K & R!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

40. kick

[TBF]

44. K&R nt

[Bolo Boffin]

45. Two special sessions over this issue

(with a third for actual business at hand), and all that time and money wasted.

Good lord, the Texas GOP ain't worth much.

[Left Coast2020]

47. What does the provision "admitting privilages" mean?

Not clear on that.

Nonetheless, TEXAS WILL OFFICIALLY BE BLUE IN ONE YEAR FROM NOW!! That is, after they elect Wendy Davis.

Awsome news for women in Texas!!!