A federal court on Wednesday ruled against a Missouri law that would ban most abortions. Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2019 decision to grant a preliminary injunction, making state officials unable to enforce the law. “Missouri has failed to demonstrate that its policy priorities outweigh (1) the public interest in access to pre-viability abortions, or (2) the significant interference with RHS’s business and the harm to pregnant individuals who might seek a pre-viability abortion before final judgment in this case,” the panel said. The law in question would bar women from terminating pregnancies at eight weeks or later and prevent women from aborting an unborn baby because of the detection of Down syndrome. It would also open up physicians who performed abortions after eight weeks to time in prison. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs, a Carter nominee, two years …
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