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kpete

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:32 AM Oct 2019

A federal judge today has blocked Alabama's near-total abortion ban from going into effect.

A federal judge today has blocked Alabama’s near-total abortion ban from going into effect Nov. 15.

District Judge Myron Thompson issued a ruling blocking the Human Life Protection Act from taking effect while a challenge to the law makes its way through court.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates sued the state declaring the law, which bans nearly all abortions included in the cases of rape and incest, is unconstitutional.


https://www.al.com/news/2019/10/federal-judge-blocks-alabama-abortion-ban.html#incart_push

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A federal judge today has blocked Alabama's near-total abortion ban from going into effect. (Original Post) kpete Oct 2019 OP
Good. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2019 #1
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