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A medically invasive procedure illegally restricts women’s rights, a federal judge ruled.
A federal judge has struck down Texas restrictions on a common second-trimester abortion procedure, ruling that the law blocks a woman’s constitutionally guaranteed right to an abortion.
The Texas law, Senate Bill 8, which was supposed to go into effect in September, would have required doctors to stop the heart of a fetus before it could be removed in an abortion. U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that the law imposed an unnecessary medical procedure on women with no known benefit to them.
“The Act does not further the health of the woman before the fetus is viable,” Yeakel wrote in the Nov. 22 decision.
“That a woman may make the decision to have an abortion before a fetus may survive outside her womb is solely and exclusively the woman’s decision,” Yeakel ruled. “The power to make this decision is her right.”
More: Texas Abortion Restrictions Struck Down As Unconstitutional
I applaud the federal judge for upholding women's constitutionally guaranteed right to an abortion.
A federal judge has struck down Texas restrictions on a common second-trimester abortion procedure, ruling that the law blocks a woman’s constitutionally guaranteed right to an abortion.
The Texas law, Senate Bill 8, which was supposed to go into effect in September, would have required doctors to stop the heart of a fetus before it could be removed in an abortion. U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that the law imposed an unnecessary medical procedure on women with no known benefit to them.
“The Act does not further the health of the woman before the fetus is viable,” Yeakel wrote in the Nov. 22 decision.
“That a woman may make the decision to have an abortion before a fetus may survive outside her womb is solely and exclusively the woman’s decision,” Yeakel ruled. “The power to make this decision is her right.”
More: Texas Abortion Restrictions Struck Down As Unconstitutional
I applaud the federal judge for upholding women's constitutionally guaranteed right to an abortion.