The new pro-life anti-abortion law was just signed yesterday by the Mississippi governor and today a federal judge has already blocked it. Of course…
A federal judge is temporarily blocking a new Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks, the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. https://t.co/LktQYmk8OA
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 20, 2018
AP – A federal judge is temporarily blocking a new Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks, the most restrictive abortion law in the United States.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order requested by the state’s only abortion clinic. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510 on Monday, and it became law immediately.
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization said in court papers filed Monday that a woman 15 weeks or more pregnant was scheduled for a Tuesday afternoon abortion.
As you might have expected, Judge Reeves is an Obama appointee.
I won’t pretend that this is a surprise. I’m sure Mississippi legislators saw this coming with hopes that it would go to the Supreme Court and ultimately overturn abortion.