Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked the Supreme Court late April 13 to review a decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals that held the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to selectively abort unborn children with Down syndrome and in the process struck down an Arkansas law. The filing came the same day as the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed on a 9-7 vote a lower court’s injunction blocking a similar Ohio statute that forbids abortions carried out because of fetal Down syndrome. The Ohio law, H.B. 214, “prohibits a doctor from performing an abortion with the knowledge that the woman’s reason for aborting her pregnancy is that her fetus has Down syndrome and she does not want a child with Down syndrome,” the appeals court stated in its ruling in Preterm-Cleveland v. McCloud. The case seems destined to reach the Supreme Court, which is now regarded as …