Monday, August 24, 2009
"Judge Upholds Law Requiring Doctors to Tell Women Abortion Ends Life"
According to the Catholic Spirit (Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis):
A federal judge in South Dakota ruled Aug. 20 that a 2005 South Dakota law requiring doctors to inform patients that abortion kills a human being is constitutional.
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier handed down the decision in a lawsuit filed against the state by Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Schreier said that although doctors must use the term "human being," it can be used in a "biological sense" and not an "ideological" one. The law specifies that a woman must be told that abortion "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."
In the same ruling she overturned a requirement in the law that women be informed that abortion can spur suicidal thoughts, increasing the risk of suicide. She termed such disclosures "untruthful and misleading."
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2009/08/judge-upholds-law-requiring-doctors-to-tell-women-abortion-ends-life.html