(The Hill) A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Mississippi from enacting a ban on abortions past 15-weeks and criticized state lawmakers for trying to pass legislation that would trigger an overturn of Roe v. Wade.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, an appointee of President Obama, ruled that the Mississippi Gestation Age Act "unequivocally" violates a woman's constitutional rights, Buzzfeed News reported.
The law, which was enacted in March, would have prohibited abortions 15 weeks after the woman's last menstrual period. It would have been one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans.
The law made exceptions in cases of a medical emergency that threatened the mother or "a severe fetal abnormality" that would have prevented the fetus surviving outside of the womb. Read More