I expect this decision to be appealed to the Supreme Court by the
plaintiffs, with the usual suspects (ACLU, PP, NARAL) etc. fighting
tooth and nail for it to be reversed. They will, of course, ignore
the needs of the women who have not been taught about fetal
development in government-mandated "sex education" classes. A sizable
fraction of 317 women seem to fall into that category, as explained by
a legal foundation that is fighting for the law to be upheld:
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Washington, DC (January 10, 2011) Today the Jubilee Campaign’s Law of
Life Project, along with two other public interest legal
organizations, the Justice Foundation and the United States Justice
Foundation, who jointly represent 317 Texas Women Harmed by Abortion
due to a lack of informed consent before their abortions, applauded
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal’s 26-page Opinion and Order that
vacated a lower court’s preliminary injunction obtained last August by
Texas’ abortion industry.
The now vacated injunction (pending trial) had blocked on “vagueness”
and unconstitutional “compelled speech” grounds the Texas law’s
requirement that an abortion provider perform and display a sonogram
of the fetus, make audible the heart auscultation of the fetus for the
woman to hear, and explain to her the results of each procedure and to
wait 24 hours, in most cases, between these disclosures and performing
the abortion.
The Appeals Court, primarily relying upon the Supreme Court’s *Casey*
and *Gonzales* opinions, as well as the Eighth Circuit’s *Planned
Parenthood v. Rounds* decisions, concluded that the challenged
provisions of the law were not vague and that the “provisions…
requiring [these] disclosures and written consent are sustainable”
under applicable Supreme Court precedents, “are within the State’s
power to regulate the practice of medicine, and therefore do not
violate the First Amendment.”
As “friends of the court”, the 317 Texas Woman Harmed By Abortion,
along with a number of other “friends of the court, ” filed amicus
briefs providing the Appeals Court with the legal, humanitarian and
common sense reasons the Court would be correct in reversing the court
below and upholding the Texas law requiring every woman be given the
opportunity to have all the information she needs, including a viewing
and medical description of the real-time ultrasound images of her
unborn child, before giving her truly voluntary and informed consent
to abortion.
As Mayela Banks, one of the 317 Texas Women Hurt By Abortion, stated,
“A picture is worth a thousand words, and the abortionists wanted to
silence the voice of my baby.”
“Now the woman can hear the sounds of her own baby’s heartbeat and see
the picture of her own child, not a picture from a textbook or
something else. This decision will result in a reduction in the
number of abortions in Texas. The reason for this is that women will
actually see what is in their womb at the time when most abortions
occur – a child with arms, feet, and legs which must be described to
the woman and a beating heart which she must be allowed to hear,” says
Allan Parker, President of The Justice Foundation. “This scientific
evidence will refute the lies of abortionists which they have told to
thousands of Texas women over the years that the contents of the
uterus are “just a mass of tissue, just a blob, or not yet a baby.”
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from
http://usjf.net/2012/01/317-texas-women-harmed-by-abortion-applaud-appeals-court/
Peter Nyikos