Supreme Court Blocks Arkansas Law Banning Abortions After Baby’s Heart Starts Beating

By Published on January 19, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear a case involving a pro-life law in Arkansas that would ban abortion when the baby’s heart starts beating. At 22 days into pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant, unborn children complete the development of their heart to the point that a heartbeat begins and the law would have stop abortions at that point.

Since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit blocked the law in May 2015, the Supreme Court entailed that it believed the lower court made the correct decision by not taking up the case.

 

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