October 03, 2005

Ah, Our Old Friends at the Florida Supreme Court

Miami Herald reports on something:
called the Women's Right to Know Act, an abortion law that conservatives bragged about -- and liberals sued over -- after it was passed in 1997 by the first Republican-controlled Legislature since Reconstruction.

Now, eight years and a couple of court defeats later, the law seeking to inform women about abortion risks landed Thursday before the Florida Supreme Court, where justices appointed by Democrats and Republicans alike struggled with the same question:

What's the big deal?

The law requires abortion doctors to tell ''reasonable patients'' three seemingly simple things: 1) risks from the procedure, 2) the gestational age of the fetus 3) the medical risks of actually bearing the child.

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