DELAY, NOTIFICATION PORTIONS OF ABORTION LAW ARE BLOCKED FIFTH Edition

Yesterday's decision was issued only hours after lawyers for the state attorney general and abortion rights advocates met with [Daniel H. Huyett] in his chambers in Reading. A complaint challenging provisions in the law was filed by Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania and other clin...

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Published inThe morning call (Allentown, Pa.)
Main Author MICHAEL BLOOD, AP Morning Call reporter Tim Reeves contributed to this story
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Allentown, Pa Tribune Interactive, LLC 12.01.1990
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Freind, Stephen
Huyett, Daniel H
Ritter, Karen
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Summary:Yesterday's decision was issued only hours after lawyers for the state attorney general and abortion rights advocates met with [Daniel H. Huyett] in his chambers in Reading. A complaint challenging provisions in the law was filed by Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania and other clinics as an amendment to a pending case against the state's 1988 abortion law. Enactment of the law by Pennsylvania's traditionally anti- abortion Legislature made the state the first to take advantage of broader authority to restrict abortion granted under a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Missouri case, Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services. Pro-choice attorneys said they were not shying away from such concerns. They said those sections were not challenged because Pennsylvania women are not seeking abortions after 24 weeks and that abortions to select the sex of a fetus do not occur in the state. Moreover, they said, abortions have effectively been banned after 24 weeks, except to save the life of the mother, since 1974.
ISSN:0884-5557