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...Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as the end of the year, has suddenly thrust Blair, a city of 7,250 that is so placid that mayoral candidates have run unopposed for the past 12 years, deep into the rancorous national debate over who has a right to influence a pregnant woman's decision to get an abortion...
...juvenile-court hearing on Sept. 30, Samson presented the findings of another gynecologist, who had examined Mary and determined that she was 27 weeks pregnant and therefore beyond the point where abortion was even an option. (Legal elective abortions are all but impossible to obtain after 24 weeks.) The court returned Mary to her parents on the condition that she not have an abortion, even though it was a moot point. In the Smiths' view, however, the fact that Mary's pregnancy was too far along for an abortion does not erase their basic complaints about the authorities' treatment...
There were a lot of people in the town of Blair, Nebraska, who thought they knew what was best for "Mary Smith,'' 15 years old and pregnant. But it's unlikely that most of them, including the police, were acting lawfully. In May 1994, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force or threaten to use force against a woman seeking an abortion. The law was intended to end the vigilante violence that had exploded at abortion clinics around the country. The lawmakers probably didn't even envision...
...this ruling has not entirely stopped men from trying to intimidate pregnant women--or kept some judges from letting them get away with it. In the late 1980s lawyers associated with the National Right to Life Committee distributed a kind of fathers' rights litigation packet-pleadings that showed men how to get an injunction against a pregnant wife or girlfriend seeking abortion. These legal gambits often worked at the lowest level. An appeal to a higher court was almost always successful, but not all women had the money to bring an appeal. In any event, the more immutable laws...
...poor and pregnant, you will no longer have a right to health care," Restuccia said...