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- THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYET CETERA
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- TOO TOUGH ON ABORTION
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- Louisiana's stringent law prohibiting most abortions would send
- doctors who perform them illegally to jail for up to 10 years.
- Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans
- struck down the law. Louisiana's attorney general, Richard
- Ieyoub, conceded that Louisiana "will have some difficulty" in
- defending its law if the state decides to appeal it to the U.S.
- Supreme Court. In a Pennsylvania case in June, the Supreme Court
- ruled out any restrictions that placed an "undue burden" on a
- woman seeking an abortion.
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