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Bioethics Defense Fund: Making News
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8.8.2005. The United States Supreme Court will soon hear an abortion-related case. The Bioethics Defense Fund is there educating the Court about how abortion hurts women.
BDF Puts Abortion Health Risks Before U.S. Supreme Court
Contact:
Dorinda C. Bordlee, Esq.
Executive Director
504.231.7234
August 8, 2005. Today, the Bioethics Defense Fund
legal team, joined by James L. Hirsen, Ph.D., Trinity Law
School adjunct professor of law, filed a friend of the court
brief in an abortion case that will likely be among the first
group of decisions to be rendered by the newly composed
U.S. Supreme Court.
The case addresses an abortion industry challenge to
New Hampshire's parental notice for minors seeking abortion
statute, and is entitled Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of
Northern New England.
Scheduled for oral argument on November 30, 2005, the
case could have important implications for the standard
that federal courts will use when abortion providers challenge
state regulations on abortion.
The brief filed by BDF is on behalf of The Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons and John M. Thorp, Jr.,
MD of UNC Chapel Hill Medical School.
The brief presents the Supreme Court with the serious
long-term health risks that minors face when they undergo
abortion, especially without the parental guidance that the
New Hampshire law encourages.
The lower federal courts had struck down the parental notice
law, prompting the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review even
before the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
To learn about the long-term risks of abortion which formed
the basis of the friend-of-the-court brief, see:
www.BDFund.org/AbortionHurtsWomen.asp
Bioethics Defense Fund
Human Rights from Beginning to End
www.BDFund.org
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