A federal appeals court on Friday lifted an injunction against four Arkansas pro-life laws and indicated they are constitutional in light of a recent opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts that was widely criticized by social conservatives.
The four laws, including one that bans a common late-term procedure pro-lifers dub “dismemberment abortion,” were blocked in 2017 by U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker.
But on Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously vacated Baker’s ruling and ordered her to reconsider the laws “in light of Chief Justice Roberts’s separate opinion” in a June abortion ruling.
Jerry Cox, president of the Arkansas-based Family Council, praised the appeals court’s decision.
“Prohibiting these dismemberment abortions will save the lives of hundreds of babies every year, and it will protect women from an abortion procedure that carries a number of risks,” Cox said.
The four laws in question:
- ban dilation and evacuation, an abortion procedure in which the unborn baby is torn apart, limb by limb, in the womb.
- ban sex-selection abortion.
- require doctors to preserve fetal tissue when performing an abortion on a minor 16 years or younger for possible forensic use.
- places new restrictions on the disposal of fetal remains.
In the June 29 decision, Roberts joined the liberal bloc to rule against a Louisiana pro-life…
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