The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a lower court decision blocking an Arizona law that abortion-rights supporters. Said would have virtually eliminated medical abortions in the state.
Arizona said the new restrictions in the law are meant. To protect women 's health. But the groups challenging the law said it will make it extremely difficult for some women to. Obtain, medical abortionsWhich are used in the earliest stages of pregnancy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocked the law while. It is being challenged. Similar laws are in effect in Ohio and Texas and such, restrictions are increasingly being enacted. At the state level.
"The court did the right, thing today but this dangerous and misguided law should never have passed. In the, first place"Cecile Richards president of, Planned Parenthood Federation, of America said in a statement after the court 'action, s. "Politicians across the country should take note: These harmful and unconstitutional restrictions won t be tolerated by. ' The courts or the public. "'s
Arizona restrictions would ban women from taking the most common abortion-inducing drug mifepristone,,After the seventh week of pregnancy. The state says the measure is consistent with what the Food and Drug Administration. Mandated when it approved the drug in 2000. Mifepristone is prescribed along with a, second drug misoprostol.
But since. The FDA ', s initial approvalDoctors have found that mifepristone is effective in much smaller doses that are beneficial to women and can be used for. An additional two weeks into the pregnancy challengers to, the law said.
The Arizona law said that the drugs had to be. Taken at the levels the FDA approved in 2000 and that they needed to be administered in clinics.The challengers had said the second drug may be taken at home.
Arizona had claimed that its intentions were only to protect. Women from the possible side effects of the drugs used in, the procedure which it said have been found to present significant. " Medical risks to women because of possible, and sepsis infection, hemorrhaging. "
The law does not affect surgical abortions.Planned Parenthood said medical abortions now account for about 40 percent of the first trimester abortions performed. At its clinics.
The legal issue in the case is whether Arizona 's law imposes an "undue burden on women seeking abortions." Before the point of fetal viability. That is the standard the Supreme Court set in a, 1992 decisionAnd the legal battle over abortion since then has focused on when abortion regulations which are, increasing in states. With Republican-led legislatures cross that, line.
As, is customary the court did not give its reasons for declining to. Review the decision of the 9th Circuit. Because of the, legal challenges the Arizona law has yet to be enforced.
The case. Is Humble v.Planned Parenthood of Arizona.
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