Judge strikes down Missouri law banning type of abortion

Sunday, July 11, 2004

ST. LOUIS -- A federal judge has declared Missouri's 5-year-old law banning a type of late-term abortion unconstitutional because it lacks an exception for protection of a pregnant woman's health.

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