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(LifeSiteNews) – Kanawha Conty Circuit Judge Tera Salango issued a temporary injunction Monday against enforcement of West Virginia’s 1849 law banning abortion, which was reactivated after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn Roe v. Wade.
On June 29, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey certified that the 170-year-old law criminalizing abortion “is on the books and enforceable” after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn Roe and restore the elected branches of government’s right to directly decide abortion policy.
The law declares that anyone who intentionally performs a surgical or chemical abortion “shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than 10 years.” Morrisey advised state lawmakers to hold a special legislative session to modernize and clarify aspects of the law, such as whether abortion-seeking women would face penalties.
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim
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