Little Rock Family Planning Services, P.A. v. Jegley

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The defendants appeal a District Court 3 decision holding Arkansas’s Par tial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997 unconstitutional and permanently enjoining enforcement of the Act. This opinion is filed jointly with Carhart v. Stenberg, 192 F.3d 1142 (8th Cir.1999), holding Nebraska’s “partial-birth abortion” ban unconstitutional. Although the language used in the Arkansas statute differs somewhat from the language in the Nebraska statute, the statutes seek to do the same thing — ban “partial-birth abortion.” The differences between the two statutes are not…