<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of today's (May 30, 2015) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 28px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Idaho’s abortion laws ruled unconstitutional</h1><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Idaho’s laws restricting abortions after 20 weeks and requiring all second-trimester abortions to take place in a hospital are unconstitutional. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ruling Friday upholds a judgment made two years ago by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The case arose after Idaho resident Jennie McCormack was charged with having an illegal abortion. Prosecutors said she obtained an abortion-inducing drug on the Internet to terminate her pregnancy. The charge was later dropped. Meanwhile McCormack and her attorney, Richard Hearn, sued. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The three-judge panel agreed that the ban on abortions after 20 weeks was unconstitutional because it restricted abortions of a nonviable fetus. The appellate court also said the hospitalization requirement was unconstitutional because it places an undue burden on a woman’s ability to obtain abortions.</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom "Pro-Choice" Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></body></html>