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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 12, 1998
10:02 AM
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CONTACT: NARAL
Belle Taylor-McGhee, William Lutz
(202) 973-3032
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Wisconsin
Judge Rules Again: So-Called "Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban Remains in
Effect
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WASHINGTON
- June 12 - NARAL President Kate Michelman today denounced
the ruling of a federal District Court Judge in Wisconsin who refused to grant a
preliminary injunction on the state's so-called "partial-birth" abortion law.
The law went into effect last month when the same judge, John C. Shabaz, refused to grant
a temporary restraining order to stop it from going into effect. That action prompted
doctors in the state to temporarily stop performing abortions altogether, essentially
leaving Wisconsin women with no access to abortion services.
At the time, Judge Shabaz claimed that no relief was necessary because women had other
alternatives to the procedures banned by the law, including hysterectomy and hysterotomy.
NARAL President Kate Michelman said Shabaz is clearly out of step with courts across the
nation which have enjoined similar laws in whole or in part as unconstitutional. Michelman
called the ruling "dangerous" and "unprecedented."
"This law has extraordinary scope and could even ban abortions in the earliest stages
of pregnancy. Who would have thought that in 1998 - twenty-five years after Roe v. Wade -
that women in an entire state would lose their constitutional right to choose," said
Michelman.
To date 28 states have enacted so-called "partial-birth" abortion bans. Similar
laws in five more states are scheduled to go into effect between now and mid-July,
including Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Kansas, and Virginia.
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