Judge Stops Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
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NEW YORK Aug. 26, 2004 - In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
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A federal judge said that a 2000 Supreme Court ruling required the law to have an exemption allowing such abortions if a woman's health is deemed at risk.
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Police said Friday they were suspending the use of a highly sensitive form of DNA testing criticized by a judge who acquitted the only person charged with murder in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
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An MP's call for compulsory counselling and a "cooling off" period before abortions is defeated.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - A federal court on Wednesday  ruled that an abortion law signed by President Bush last year  was unconstitutional and banned the U.S. Justice Department  from enforcing it, joining two other states that struck down  the law.
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NEW YORK  - A federal judge ruled that a ban on a type of late-term abortion violates the US Constitution. The New York judge ruled on a federal ban, signed into law in 2003 by US President George W. Bush (news - web sites).
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A third federal judge has ruled the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, adding judicial weight that some experts say could keep the issue from reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.
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An infant with an often-lethal skeletal disorder can be removed from life support against his mother's wishes, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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A state judge ruled on Monday that a $450 million bond proposal to finance stem cell research must stay on the November ballot, dealing a blow to abortion opponents.
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Court rules president's suspension of judge illegal.
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A judge has ordered the state Board of Medicine to stop disciplinary proceedings against a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself following brain surgery.
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A U.S. federal judge halted planned elections in Port Chester, New York, on Friday, after the government said its political system effectively denies Hispanics representation in the local government.
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A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who wanted to keep their young children from learning about gay marriage in school.
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The Senate blocked a bid by anti-abortion forces Thursday to cut off money for clinics that provide family planning and other health services in addition to abortions.
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In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
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A U.S. District Court judge yesterday effectively ended efforts by Republicans in Ohio to challenge the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters in one of the most closely contested states in this year's presidential race.
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China is to outlaw the selective  abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio  of boys to girls that has grown since a one-child policy was  introduced more than 20 years ago.