Posted by inetryconydot on 4/23/13

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Rival legal teams, well-financed and highly motivated, are
girding for court battles over the coming months on laws
enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the
nation's toughest bans on abortion. For all their
differences, attorneys for the two states and the
abortion-rights supporters opposing them agree on this: The
laws represent an unprecedented frontal assault on the
Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established
a nationwide right to abortion. The Arkansas law, approved
March 6 when legislators overrode a veto by Democratic Gov.
Mike Beebe, would ban most abortions from the 12th week of
pregnancy onward. On March 26, North Dakota went further,
with Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signing a measure that
would ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy,
when a fetal heartbeat can first be detected and before
some women even know they're pregnant. Abortion-rights
advocates plan to challenge both measures, contending they
are unconstitutional violations of the Roe ruling that
legalized abortion until a fetus could viably survive
outside the womb. A fetus is generally considered viable at
22 to 24 weeks. Read more...

Rivals prepare for court battles over tough abortion laws.

Rivals prepare for court battles over tough abortion laws., 4/23/13, by inetryconydot.

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