VICTORY! Federal Court Strikes Down Demeaning North Carolina Ultrasound Law
Source: NC ACLU
GREENSBORO, NC A federal district judge today struck down a North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to show a woman an ultrasound and describe the images in detail four hours before having an abortion, even if the woman objects.
The court ruled that key provisions of the law violate doctors free speech rights. The law was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Today's court ruling protects the rights of women and their doctors from the ideological agenda of extremist lawmakers, said Jennifer Rudinger, executive director of the ACLU of North Carolina. If these unconstitutional measures had gone into effect, doctors would have been prevented from using their best medical judgment to provide patients with care based on their specific individual needs. This law represented an egregious government intrusion into individuals private medical decisions, and we are very pleased that it will not go into effect.
Read more: http://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/index.php/blog/victory-federal-court-strikes-down-demeaning-north-carolina-ultrasound-law.html
Read the court's order here: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/01.17.14_order_granting_partial_summary_judgment.pdf
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Government is out of our vaginas!
Well, not that I have one.
riqster
(13,986 posts)"because I did not have one. And now they are coming for the penises, and they can't stand up...er, there is no one to stand up for us."
Corny, but unless we all have equality, none of us do.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)The Texas law was upheld and so with a split there may be grounds to go to the SCOTUS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/texas-sonogram-law-judge-wont-block_n_1258334.html
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Republicans have come up with in years would be considered good governing.
lastlib
(23,247 posts)They're interested only in power and getting it concentrated in their hands.
That's the fundamental core of conservatism--conserving power for the powerful and wealth for the wealthy.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)And in North Popelina they are punishing the state for going blue in 2008 and almost blue in 2012.
They're gonna show us..... so there!
Bandit
(21,475 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)Not that I need to add anything - They don't think, they read the talking points.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)under the Obama administration...what a bunch of hypocrites!
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)This is EXCELLENT NEWS !!!!!
I'm gonna ask my wife if I can send money to Texas Planned Parenthood to help those women with transportation issues to reach clinics. (She holds the purse strings ! Thank God!). Maybe they will be next! We Michiganders may be next facing such a crisis with our deep red state government. Need I show a replay of this for you all?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023959184
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Let's keep the momentum going and overturn this type of law that the GOP keeps thrusting upon us!
Thanks for the news Triana, it gives me hope.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)That should put an end the Koch brothers' dream of a Birch Society republic in the state.
Red Mountain
(1,735 posts)We can hope.
riqster
(13,986 posts)efhmc
(14,727 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)But whatever gets the job done!
RC
(25,592 posts)When are women going to get a say in their own reproductive rights, against these meddling authoritarians?
But I say we take this as a step...hopefully it's going to be about women one of these days.
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)...is a big part of what keeps a woman's reproductive rights intact if you think about it.
Still just odd to me, though.
abakan
(1,819 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)I don't know if the girl or woman who had the abortion ever did then.
Ditto when contraception was illegal in some states and doctors provided it.
So, in a way, it makes sense.
bucolic_frolic
(43,181 posts)a reverse free speech rights case
where you are forced by government mandate to listen and watch
someone else's free speech
That's how the GOP gets the government off our backs, by using
the government to force women to watch someone else's ideas
Free speech ain't exactly free when you are coerced into listening to it
The right of privacy, to be left alone, to ignore what you don't want or
like is so basic a human right
By the logic of these laws, pretzel makers could hijack the legislative
process and force everyone to eat spinach pretzels with cinnamon
flavoring on Wednesdays.
WACKO!
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)But whatever works in this emergency situation. I'm sure they would have a better chance with this because there is legal precedence of some sort. Roe doesn't really guarantee the right to seek an abortion but the right to privacy. It's a rather weak ruling which is why it is constantly threatened. Some people say they wish Roe was overturned so a more ironclad law could take its place. I'm not sure if it's worth the risk in this environment of wackiness today.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)That brings us down to 22 states which still require it. I think that's right. Oklahoma's was knocked down and then their attempt to reinstate it was denied by the Supreme Court last year. One by one we're taking them down!
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I'm kind of stunned by the number. I had no idea.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)I read it before at the Kaiser Foundation. I think that's the right number with the two removed.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)What a thoroughly barbaric and demeaning experience to force on America's women. The legislators who passed these laws should be punished.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)They can't overcome a woman's right to have a legal abortion, but they can limit it extremely and humiliate her for her choice. Which is the approach 24 states chose to take on abortion. The tools they're using are mandatory ultrasounds, increased gestational limits on abortion, and targeted regulation of abortion providers.
I found the list of states, here's the link. http://kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/ultrasound-requirements/
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)but teabaggers are so blinded by their ideology and zeal that they keep passing these stupid laws.
I'd like a law that charges assemblymen/congressmen etc. who voted for any law for the costs of enacting and litigating the legislation in the event it is struck down as unconstitutional.
perdita9
(1,144 posts)Women are capable of making their own medical decisions. Stop treating them like children.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)domestic terrorism at best, pyschological torture at worst.
rocktivity
though it is still so fucking beyond my comprehension that the troglodytes could have passed it in the first place
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Are really important to donate to, if and when you can.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Gay marriage in Oklahoma, voter ID laws quashed in Pennsylvania, this... Here's hoping to see LOTS more like this in the future.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)One of Chris Christie's flunkies is ready to sing.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)Now they won't have to vote those clowns out.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Great work, your honor.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)malthaussen
(17,204 posts)Now, if only we have learned from the experience.
-- Mal
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)... that they can take back their state from the teabagger coup.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Gov. Pat McCrory (R)
- K&R