Wed Sep 29, 2021 – 4:23 pm EDTWed Sep 29, 2021 – 4:25 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Rayes has temporarily blocked enforcement of an Arizona law that criminalizes abortions sought specifically to eliminate preborn babies with genetic abnormalities.
In April, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law SB 1457, which bans abortion providers from knowingly committing abortions “sought because of a genetic abnormality of the child” such as Down syndrome (not including “cases where the child has a lethal fetal condition”), classifying such violations as Class 6 felonies.
The law also bans the dispensing of abortion pills via mail, taxpayer funding of research using aborted babies, and public education institutions from performing abortions except to save a mother’s life, as well as granting civil rights to preborn children regardless of their stage of development and mandating that aborted babies be buried or cremated.
The Arizona Republic reports that Rayes agreed to enjoin enforcement of the law while arguments over its legal merits work through the system. He claimed that a provision requiring abortionists to notify patients about the law would “make it less likely that a woman, though desiring to terminate
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