Legal Opinion
Rhode Island Medical Society v. Whitehouse
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided August 30, 1999No. C.A. 97-416LPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LAGUEUX, Chief Judge.
Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse and Governor Lincoln Almond (“defendants”) undertake a Herculean effort to save Rhode Island’s ban on partial birth abortions, R.I.Gen.Laws § 23-4.12 (1996) (the “Act”). Two years ago, this Court opined that the Act'appeared presumptively unconstitutional, even with all presumptions applied in favor of the law. That proved true. ,
The Act sprouted amid a national debate about a relatively-new surgical procedure described below as a “D & X.” When the Act first passed in 1997, the Rhode Island General Assembly (the…
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