Breaking: Judge Blocks Wisconsin Anti-Abortion Law (Video Updates)
Yeah! The 9 day from introduction to legislative passage, signed secretly into law during a holiday weekend by cowardly Governor Scott Walker has been partially blocked from implementation for 10 days by a judge.
After a hastily called hearing, a federal judge Monday put a 10-day freeze on a new state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges.
In a 19-page opinion issued Monday evening, U.S. District Judge William M. Conley cited a "troubling lack of justification" for the law and said he would stay enforcement of the admissions provision until July 18, a day after a more deliberate courtroom hearing scheduled before him next week.
The 19 page opinion (warning: large pdf) can be found here.
Sadly, the decision today (the first day the new law is in effect) doesn't change the now mandatory ultrasound requirement, however that might change at the hearing scheduled next week.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/08/1222141/-Breaking-Judge-Blocks-Wiscon
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