A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit found June 4 a Michigan law that regulated abortion methods was unconstitutional because it presented an “undue burden” on a women’s right to terminate her pregnancy.
The ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court in April upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003, which criminalizes a particular type of abortion known as an “intact dilation and extraction,” or alternatively “D&X.” Gonzales v. Carhart, 127 S. Ct. 1610 (2007).
The Sixth Circuit here said its holding squared with the Court’s Gonzales ruling because the Michigan law was written to encompass other commonly used abortion procedures, such as “dilation and evacuation,” or D&E, which the Court consistently has held may not be prohibited.
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