Judge Grants Short Reprieve To Arkansas’ Last-Remaining Abortion Clinic, Blocks Three Laws About To Take Effect

The three bills would have required physicians providing abortions to be board-certified or board-eligible in obstetrics and gynecology, banned abortions after 18 weeks and prohibited abortions sought because of fetal diagnoses of Down syndrome. The first would have led to the closure of Little Rock Family Planning Services, the only clinic providing surgical abortions in the state. In the order, the federal judge said the laws “cause ongoing and imminent irreparable harm to the plaintiffs and their patients” at this time in the proceedings.

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