Legal Opinion
Richmond Medical Center for Women v. Gilmore
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided July 16, 1999No. Civ.A. 3:98cv309PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PAYNE, District Judge.
This action calls into question the constitutionality of the Virginia statute, Va.Code Ann. § 18.2-74.2 (the “Act”), which proscribes as criminal so-called “partial birth abortions,” interpreted by the Commonwealth to mean the abortion procedure known as intact dilation and extraction and all potential variants thereof. The Commonwealth defends the Act first by arguing that the procedures which it proscribes are not really abortions, but rather “infanticide” and, on that rationale, argues that the constitutionality of the Act is not to be measured…
2Cases cited115 opinions
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3Cited by26 opinions
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- Rhode Island Medical Society v. WhitehouseDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1999
- Richmond Medical Center for Women v. HicksDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 2004
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