Abortion Laws

A federal court in Arkansas blocked for 14 days the enforcement of four restrictive abortion laws that include a ban on second trimester dilation-and-evacuation procedures and a fetal tissue disposal mandate that requires notice and consent from a woman’s sexual partner, or if the woman is a minor, her parents.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas **blocked for 14 days the enforcement of four restrictive abortion laws that include a ban on second trimester dilation-and-evacuation procedures and a fetal-tissue-disposal mandate that requires notice and consent from a woman’s sexual partner, or if the patient is a minor, her parents.

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