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Judge Blocks Indiana’s Anti-Abortion Law

HeadlineJul 01, 2016

In another victory for reproductive rights, a federal judge has blocked an Indiana law that would have banned abortions based on a fetus’s genetic anomalies or disabilities. The ruling is the latest in a series of decisions upholding women’s right to access abortions, following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling to strike down Texas’s admitting privileges requirement and another provision requiring abortion clinics to meet the standards of hospital-style surgery centers.

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