ARIZONA CAN'T BAN ABORTIONS AFETER 20 WEEKS
The United States Supreme Court on Monday refused to revisit a lower court ruling that struck down Arizona's ban on most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Update at 11:25 a.m. ET. The Broader View:
NPR's Julie Rovner tells Morning Edition that this decision by the Supreme Court tells us "something but not a whole lot" about the potential fate of similar regulations in about a dozen other states.
Arizona, she explained, was a kind of outlier because it was measuring the gestation period differently. Essentially, Julie said, Arizona was banning most abortions at what most medical professionals consider 18 weeks of gestation, weeks before what the Supreme Court and some medical professionals consider a fetus viable.
So, Julie said, we may have to wait for another state's case to reach the high court before making a judgment on what this means nationally.
Update at 10:28 a.m. ET. On The Lower Court Decision:
The New York Times explains that the central issue in this lawsuit is when the law considers a fetus to be viable.
Concurring with the majority opinion handed down by the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld said previous Supreme Court decisions forced him to strike down the ban on most abortions after 20 weeks, which is when the Arizona law's sponsors say fetuses can feel pain.
The Times adds:
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