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| MO to appeal in abortion case |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/17/2006 |
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The state will appeal a federal court ruling requiring that pregnant inmates be taken to abortion clinics when they request the procedure, Attorney General Jay Nixon said. U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple of Kansas City concluded last month that a Missouri policy against transporting inmates for abortions violated constitutional safeguards for due process and against cruel and unusual punishment. Nixon filed a notice of appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. The appeal will be grounded on a 1986 Missouri law prohibiting the use of public funds, facilities and employees to assist an abortion when it's not necessary to save the life of the woman, spokesman John Fougere said...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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