Arguments Held Before Federal Appeals Court Challenging Most Extreme Abortion Ban in the Nation

SAN FRANCISCO –(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2012.  Arguments were held before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today in a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to the most extreme abortion ban in the country.

The ACLU, the ACLU of Arizona and the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the Arizona law earlier this year on behalf of three physicians and their patients. The law criminalizes virtually all abortions starting at…