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Article: Abortion Laws Do Not Always Require Health Exceptions, Appeals Panel Rules.(Law overview)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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In a decision that remains largely under the radar, a federal appeals court has rejected a key weapon in the pro-abortion legal arsenal. On February 24, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said that U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott had erred when she concluded that every law which regulates abortion must contain a general health and life exception.
Writing for a three-member panel, Judge David McKeague said that "close scrutiny of the case law reveals that no such blanket requirement has been imposed." The panel also held that lower courts may not strike down entire statutes when a narrower ruling is possible, citing the Supreme Court's unanimous decision ...