A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a ruling allowing Arkansas to implement a set of laws banning dismemberment and sex-selective abortions.
In 2017, Arkansas passed four pro-life laws that, among other things, ban second-trimester and third-trimester dismemberment abortions and sex-selective abortions carried out because the parents don’t want the baby because of its sex, most often because it’s a girl.
In a Per Curiam decision released Friday, the appeals panel vacated a preliminary injunction against the laws by a district court, remanding the case for reconsideration by the lower court and allowing the laws to take effect on Aug. 28.
The panel cited the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, as given in last month’s decision in June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo.
In June Medical Services, Roberts sided with the high court’s four liberal justices, striking down a Louisiana state law that required abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges.
Although Roberts had sided with the majority against the law, Roberts also wrote a concurring opinion taking issue with the courts determining whether courts could rule on certain abortion regulations.
“… courts applying a balancing test would be asked in essence to weigh the State’s interests in ‘protecting the potentiality of human life’ and the health of the woman, on the one hand, against the woman’s liberty interest in defining her ‘own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life’ on the other,” wrote Roberts in his concurring opinion.
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SOURCE: Christian Post, Michael Gryboski
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