A federal judge blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues
RALEIGH, N.C. — — A federal judge on Saturday blocked two portions of North Carolina's
The litigation doesn't directly seek to topple the crux of the abortion law enacted in May after GOP legislators Eagles wrote the plaintiffs were likely to be successful on their claim that the law is so vague as to subject abortion providers to claims that they broke the law if they can't locate an embryo through an ultrasound because the pregnancy is so new.
Republican legislative leaders defending the law in court “have offered no explanation or evidence — that is, no rational basis — for this differing treatment,” Eagles said in her order.“We applaud the court’s decision to block a few of the onerous barriers to essential reproductive health care that have no basis in medicine," said Dr. Beverly Gray, an OB-GYN and a named plaintiff in the case.
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