Two Bits of Good News on the Pro-Choice Front

Oklahoma

"A judge struck down a state law Monday that required doctors to follow label instructions when prescribing abortion-inducing drugs, finding that the rule is unconstitutional because it does not apply to other kinds of medication.  Judge Patricia Parrish invalidated the law, which the Republican-controlled Legislature approved and Gov. Mary Fallin signed last year...

Oklahoma District Judge Patricia Parrish

...The F.D.A. approved (the use of mifepristone) in 2000.  Since the F.D.A. approval medical researchers and clinical trials have shown that mifepristone is effective in much smaller doses.  Opponents argued that the Oklahoma law forced physicians to treat women according to an outdated method that is less safe, less effective and more expensive than the method doctors currently use."

eye'm thynkin':   A victory for doctors--you know, people with actual medical degrees. And a big victory for the women of Oklahoma.


Read more at The New York Times

Alabama

District Judge Myron Thompson

"Conservatives are thrilled whenever they hear that another abortion provider has been put out of business...but what if instead of abortion clinics, it was gun shops that were being forced to close?  Welcome to the ingenious nightmare scenario that one judge dropped on people who want to impose their values on everyone else, but hate it when it happens to them.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson had just struck down the 2013 anti-abortion law which would have seen most of Alabama's abortion providers being forced to shut down, when he couldn't resist twisting the dagger a bit in the backs of supporters of the bill...

... Thompson (presented) a thought experiment... It goes like this:

What if, instead of abortion, the issue were gun sales.  Let's say in an effort to bypass the Constitution and curb gun ownership, the state...passed a law that effectively shut down every gun store in the state but two.

'The defenders of this law would be called upon to do a heck of a lot of explaining--and rightly so, in the face of an effect so severe,' Thompson points out.  'Similarly, in this case so long as the Supreme Court continues to recognize a constitutional right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, any regulation that would, in effect, restrict the exercise of that right to only Huntsville and Tuscaloosa should be subject to the same skepticism.'"

eye'm thynkin':  What an ingenious use of logic as payback. Judge Myron Thompson for President!

Read more at Addicting Info