Appeals court upholds hold on Arkansas abortion laws
LITTLE ROCK, Ark — A federal appeals court on Tuesday kept on hold an Arkansas law banning abortions 18 weeks into a woman's pregnancy and another banning the procedure from being performed because the fetus has Down syndrome.
The 8th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's 2019 ruling temporarily blocking Arkansas from enforcing the measures.
"As the district court recognized, the law governing the constitutionality of two of the three statutes at issue — Act 493 and Act 619 — though obviously subject to change in the future, is well established in this Circuit today," the three-judge panel said in Tuesday's ruling.
U.S. District Court Judge Kristine Baker in 2019 ruled that both measures unconstitutionally restrict abortion before a fetus is viable, or able to survive outside the womb.
Read more: https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2021/jan/06/appeals-court-upholds-hold-arkansas-abortion-laws/855252/
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