U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
May 23, 2013
Arizona abortion ban overturned by 9th Circuit panel
U.S. Supreme Court authority overrides Arizona's ban on abortions beginning at 20 weeks gestation, a 9th Circuit panel held Tuesday.
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Roe v. Wade began an unbroken stream of U.S. Supreme Court authority that overrides Arizona's ban on abortions beginning at 20 weeks gestation, a 9th Circuit panel held Tuesday. The decision is the first federal appellate ruling on the nation's most extreme abortion law, one that contradicts Roe's fundamental holding that a woman has a constitutional right to choose to terminate her pregnancy before the fetus is viable, the panel hel...
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