{"id":186472,"date":"2014-01-13T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/13\/arizona-abortion-restrictions-struck-down\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:42:00","slug":"arizona-abortion-restrictions-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/13\/arizona-abortion-restrictions-struck-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Abortion Restrictions Struck Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2014\/0113\/Abortion-rights-Supreme-Court-leaves-rejection-of-Arizona-law-in-place\">declined to review the appeals court decision invalidating the law<\/a>, so the the decision stands:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The US Supreme Court on Monday turned aside a request by Arizona officials for the high court to examine the constitutionality of a state statute that sought to restrict abortions after 20 weeks of fetal gestation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated the Arizona abortion statute last year, ruling that it violated long-established Supreme Court precedents by depriving a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy prior to the point of fetal viability.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Supporters of the law expressed disappointment over the high court\u2019s move.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cEvery innocent life deserves to be protected,\u201d Steven Aden, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian nonprofit based in Scottsdale, Ariz.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNot only did this law protect innocent children in the womb who experience horrific pain during a later-term abortion, it also protected mothers from the increased risk of physical harm and tremendous psychological consequences that come with late-term abortions,\u201d Mr. Aden said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Women rights groups praised the high court action.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I praise this high court action as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has declined to review the appeals court decision invalidating the law, so the the decision stands: The US Supreme Court on Monday turned aside a request by Arizona officials for the high court to examine the constitutionality of a state statute that sought to restrict abortions after 20 weeks of fetal gestation.A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186472"}],"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=186472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}