Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Michigan’s Ban on a Controversial Method of Abortion

The New York Times reports, “The State of Michigan’s third attempt in a decade to ban a procedure known among anti-abortion activists as partial-birth abortion was declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court on Monday, less than two months after the Supreme Court narrowly upheld a federal law banning the method.” According to the report, “The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said the Michigan statute, the Legal Birth Definition Act, was worded so broadly that in addition to banning the procedure, it would also prohibit other legal abortion methods.”

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