CNA Staff, Aug 10, 2020 / 17:01 pm
A federal court of appeals has removed an injunction blocking four Arkansas abortion regulations from going into effect.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday to reinstate the 2017 Arkansas laws. They can take effect August 28, although they may still face legal challenge.
The laws include a ban on abortions based solely on the sex of the baby, and two regulations on the preservation and disposal of tissue from aborted babies, as well as legislation prohibiting a second-trimester abortion method known as "dilation and evacuation," by which an unborn baby is dismembered.
A district judge had blocked the rules following a legal challenge from the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of a local abortion doctor.