Abortion

Virginia 'partial-birth' abortion law overturned by Federal judge

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 26th, 2004

A federal judge has ruled Virginia's ban on a type of late-term abortion is unconstitutional, striking down a law that uses language mirroring the federal ban signed into law in 2003.

U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams blocked the state law in July and on February 2, 2004, declared it void. Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore said he plans to appeal.

Virginia's law made illegal what opponents call partial-birth abortion, a procedure generally performed in the second or third trimester in which a fetus is partially delivered before being killed.

Williams said the law violated privacy rights and failed to make an exception...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-02-26)

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