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Planned Parenthood And ACLU Sue Arkansas Over Abortion Restrictions
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Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties sued the state of Arkansas, charging that its laws restricting abortion present an undue burden on women’s access to abortion.
“In Arkansas, legislators have passed laws that amount to an outright ban on abortion for many women, and would force women to endure invasions, investigations and insults just to get the care they decided they need,” ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project deputy director Talcott Camp said, according to The Washington Post.
Their lawsuit asks Arkansas to repeal its law banning dilation and evacuation abortions, the most common second trimester abortion procedure which sucks out the unborn baby’s body parts limb by limb. The lawsuit also seeks to block its mandate that women seeking abortions notify a family member prior to the abortion as well as its requirement that fetal tissue be preserved if the woman aborting is less than 14 years old.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Little Rock Family Planning Services also filed a lawsuit Wednesday with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The lawsuit seeks to blocks Arkansas’ law allowing the state to shut down an abortion clinic if it violates the law in any way.
“The more regulations, the better,” Arkansas Right to Life executive director Rose Mimms said, WaPo reports. “We need to protect these women who go into these abortion clinics,” she added.
A federal judge barred Arkansas from enforcing its law restricting medication abortions Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker put a 14-day temporary injunction on Arkansas’ law requiring doctors who provide medication abortions to have a contract with another physician with hospital-admitting privileges.
Baker’s ruling allows Planned Parenthood and Little Rock Family Planning Clinic to continue administering medication abortions. Baker’s temporary restraining order will become a permanent injunction barring enforcement of the law pending Arkansas’ decision to appeal to the 8th Circuit. Planned Parenthood first requested to block this Arkansas’ law on June 8, less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Planned Parenthood’s suit against Arkansas’ Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act.
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