{"id":179199,"date":"2018-04-20T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/20\/appeals-court-1-mike-pence-0\/"},"modified":"2018-04-20T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:57:00","slug":"appeals-court-1-mike-pence-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/20\/appeals-court-1-mike-pence-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court: 1 \u2014 Mike Pence: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is a remarkably uncontroversial upholding of legal precedent, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/state-issues\/384124-appeals-court-indiana-abortion-law-signed-by-mike-pence\">the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago just ruled that Mike Pence&#8217;s Indiana anti-abortion law is unconstitutional<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Indiana&#8217;s ban on &#8220;selective abortions,&#8221; which was signed into law in 2016 by then-Gov. Mike Pence (R), is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The law banned women from having abortions based on the gender, race or disability of the fetus. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The law imposes an &#8220;undue burden&#8221; on a woman&#8217;s right to get an abortion, said the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe Supreme Court has been clear: the State may inform a woman\u2019s decision before viability, but it cannot prohibit it,\u201d Judge William Bauer wrote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Similar bills passed or proposed in other states have specifically tried to ban abortions based on a Down syndrome diagnosis.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s hope that there will be more defeats of the Talibaptists nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is a remarkably uncontroversial upholding of legal precedent, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago just ruled that Mike Pence&#8217;s Indiana anti-abortion law is unconstitutional: Indiana&#8217;s ban on &#8220;selective abortions,&#8221; which was signed into law in 2016 by then-Gov. Mike Pence (R), is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[551,499,407,449],"class_list":["post-179199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-constitution","tag-justice","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}