«partial-birth abortion» ban declared unconstitutional
in a brilliant blow to religious zealots at the white house and round the country a federal judge declared the wrongly named «partial-birth abortion ban act» unconstitutional as every progfressive would have expected, saying it infringes on a woman's right to choose.US district judge phyllis hamilton's ruling came in one of three lawsuits challenging the legislation bush signed last year.
she agreed with abortion rights activists that a woman's right to choose is paramount, and that it is therefore «irrelevant» whether a fetus suffers pain, as abortion foes contend.
the judge wrote in her opinion that the act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion.
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