North Carolina Can Enforce 20-Week Abortion Ban, Federal Judge Rules

Matt Lamb : Aug 22, 2022
LifeSiteNews.com

"...Under Dobbs, there is now no constitutional right to a pre-viability abortion, thus depriving the injunction of any constitutional basis..." -Judge William Osteen

(Raleigh, NC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] North Carolina can enforce its 20-week abortion ban, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. (Image: Unsplash-Marcin Jozwiak)

An injunction against the law had been in place since 2019, but Judge William Osteen, a federal district court judge, removed it due to the Dobbs v. Jackson June ruling by the US Supreme Court which returned the issue of abortion to the states. Osteen is the same judge who had placed the original injunction on the law's enforcement.

He wrote that "under Dobbs, there is now no constitutional right to a pre-viability abortion, thus depriving the injunction of any constitutional basis from which to enjoin the challenged North Carolina laws regulating abortion"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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