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By Dave Andrusko Polk County District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell ruled Monday that Iowa’s three-day waiting period is constitutional, rejecting a challenge from Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, which sued in May....
By Dave Andrusko When the state of Florida filed its brief defending its 24-hour waiting period for abortion-minded women, it asked Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis for more time to develop its case why HB 633 meets constitutional muster. Yesterday Judge Lewis...
By Dave Andrusko In the latest of a long series of decisions, the Florida Supreme Court today blocked a law requiring that a pregnant woman meet with an abortionist and wait 24-hours before she can have an abortion. “The opinion, written by Justice Barbara Pariente in...
By Dave Andrusko The seven-member Florida Supreme Court heard competing arguments Tuesday over the state’s requirement that a pregnant woman meet with an abortionist and wait 24-hours before she can have an abortion. Waiting periods are both common and common sense...
By Dave Andrusko The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a challenge brought against a 2015 Florida law that requires a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can abort. The lawsuit is being brought by Bread and Roses, a Gainesville, Florida abortion...
By Dave Andrusko The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for arguments in a challenge brought against a 2015 Florida law that requires a 24 hour waiting period before a woman can abort. The justices will hear oral arguments November 1. As is often the case...
In 2015, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that requires a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can have an abortion. This common sense and protective legislation was signed into law by Pro-Life Governor Scott on June 10, 2015 and was set to take effect on July...
By Dave Andrusko This will be a brief post (okay, having now written it, I take that back). Why? Because to accept the argument of a pro-abortion “study” requires not only the willful suspension of disbelief but also putting your brain in deep freeze. How so? Let me...
By Dave Andrusko Well, the plaintiffs challenging Florida’s 24 hour waiting period, Gainesville Woman Care LLC and Medical Students for Choice, are nothing if not persistent. No sooner had an appeals court Monday denied an emergency motion to reinstate an injunction...
ORLANDO, FL – The First District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee, FL overturned an injunction by a lower court which clears the way for the State to begin enforcement of a bill passed by the Legislature in 2015, requiring mothers to wait 24 hours before an abortion...