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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a ruling allowing Arkansas to implement a set of laws banning dismemberment and sex-selective abortions.

In 2017, Arkansas passed four pro-life laws that, among other things, ban second-trimester and third-trimester dismemberment abortions and sex-selective abortions carried out because the parents don’t want the baby because of its sex, most often because it’s a girl.

In a Per Curiam decision released Friday, the appeals panel vacated a preliminary injunction against the laws by a district court, remanding the case for reconsideration by the lower court and allowing the laws to take effect on Aug. 28.

The panel cited the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, as given in last month’s decision in June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo. . . .

Although Roberts had sided with the majority against the law, Roberts also wrote a concurring opinion taking issue with the courts determining whether courts could rule on certain abortion regulations.

“… courts applying a balancing test would be asked in essence to weigh the State’s interests in ‘protecting the potentiality of human life’ and the health of the woman, on the one hand, against the woman’s liberty interest in defining her ‘own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life’ on the other,” wrote Roberts in his concurring opinion.

“There is no plausible sense in which anyone, let alone this Court, could objectively assign weight to such imponderable values and no meaningful way to compare them if there were.”

The Eighth Circuit panel stressed the point Roberts made about how “a weighing of costs and benefits of an abortion regulation” was not “a job for the courts.”

“Chief Justice Robert’s vote was necessary in holding unconstitutional Louisiana’s admitting-privileges law, so his separate opinion is controlling,” reasoned the Per Curiam decision.

“Chief Justice Roberts … emphasized the ‘wide discretion’ that courts must afford to legislatures in areas of medical uncertainty.” . . .

“As Arkansas’s chief legal officer, I have always advocated for the lives of unborn children and will continue to defend our state’s legal right to protect the unborn,” said Rutledge, according to LifeNews.com.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, which brought the litigation against the laws when they were first passed, denounced the panel’s ruling, calling the laws “onerous.”

“This ruling is a reminder that the fight against these extreme abortion restrictions is far from won,” stated Holly Dickson, ACLU of Arkansas legal director.

“We are evaluating our next steps and will continue to fight to ensure these harmful and unconstitutional laws do not take effect.”

(Excerpt from The Christian Post. Article by Michael Gryboski. Photo from Flickr.)

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Mel Teoh
August 14, 2020

Holy Father the giver of Life,
Thank You for this encouraging article. Thank You that You are ALL KNOWING.
Thank you for the privilege to pray. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Please forgive our sins as we forgive others.

Father God, we pray that the resources of the ungodly ACLU to dry up. Just as Jesus spoke to the nonproducing fig tree and it dried up from the roots, we speak to the resources of those who work evil in our country and command their money, communication, and alliances to dry up from the roots.

We pray that many of ACLU staff will know You and receive the salvation of Jesus Christ. And REPENT. In Jesus name.

In Jesus name bind demonic principalities of witchcraft, hate, and encouraging women to kill their own offspring. Take away the PLANK that binding women mind to do what is right.

Leviticus 18:21
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Keep us humble and put our trust on You forever and ever.

May the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be upon us all from today onward.

Thank you Father. Amen.

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