A federal judge has just struck down Mississippi’s abortion law that banned most abortions after 15-weeks:
A federal judge struck down Mississippi’s controversial law banning most abortions after 15 weeks about eight months after the Republican governor approved it.
The law, called the Gestational Age Act, was considered to be the most restrictive in the U.S. It banned abortions after 15 weeks and only allowed for exemptions if the pregnancy threatened a woman’s life or “major bodily function” or if the fetus would be “incompatible with life” outside of the womb.
Exemptions would not be granted for pregnancies that resulted from rape or incest. Doctors who violated the ban would have faced mandatory suspension or revocation of their medical license.
What the Judge said…
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ruled Tuesday that the law “unequivocally” violated women’s constitutional rights and contended there wasn’t “legitimate state interest strong enough, prior to viability, to justify a ban on abortions.”
“[T]his Court concludes that the Mississippi Legislature’s professed interest in ‘women’s health’ is pure gaslighting,” Reeves wrote in his decision.
Reeves also said the abortion ban was “closer to the old Mississippi – the Mississippi bent on controlling women and minorities.”
Controlling women and minorities? Are you kidding me? Since when is standing up for life trying to control women and minorities?
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this is not a judge appointed by a Republican.
And…I just looked him up. He was appointed by Obama in 2010. That explains it.
I’m sure this will be appealed even though that hasn’t been announced yet. After all, with more constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, they’d be a fool not to appeal this one as high as it can go.