| Date: | Thursday November 06, @02:11PM |
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| Author: | NYC |
| Topic: | Civil Liberties |
| from the Civil-Liberties dept. | |
AP/NY Times -November 6, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The legal attack against a new ban on certain late-term abortions rapidly escalated Thursday as federal judges in New York and California blocked the law, delivering a major setback to President Bush only a day after he signed the measure.
The ruling by the San Francisco judge affects doctors who work at 900 Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide. The decision and the ruling in New York hours earlier together cover a majority of the abortion providers in the United States.
And on Wednesday, a federal judge in Nebraska made a similar ruling that covers four abortion doctors licensed in 13 states across the Midwest and East. The ruling came less than an hour after Bush signed the law.
The rulings prevent enforcement of the ban until a challenge to the law's constitutionality can be heard.
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