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An Indiana abortion law has been blocked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/u...est&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=2
A federal judge on Thursday blocked an Indiana law that would have banned abortions based solely on a fetus’s disability or genetic anomaly, suggesting that it was an illegal limit on a woman’s long-established constitutional right.
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, of Federal District Court for Southern Indiana, also held up a state ban on abortions motivated solely by a fetus’s race or sex. In the preliminary injunction, Judge Pratt said limiting the reasons for an abortion was “inconsistent with the notion of a right rooted in privacy concerns and a liberty right to make independent decisions.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/u...est&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=2